Shabby vs Scruffy - What's the difference?
shabby | scruffy |
Torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=2 Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.
Mean; paltry; despicable.
untidy in appearance
An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that intelligence is too complicated (or computationally intractable) to be solved with the sorts of homogeneous system favoured by the "neats".
Scruffy is a antonym of shabby.
As adjectives the difference between shabby and scruffy
is that shabby is torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged while scruffy is untidy in appearance.As a noun scruffy is
{{cx|informal|lang=en}} An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that intelligence is too complicated (or computationally intractable) to be solved with the sorts of homogeneous system favoured by the "neats".shabby
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Adjective
(er)citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
- They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.
- The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.
- shabby treatment
