Shabby vs Shabbiness - What's the difference?
shabby | shabbiness |
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.
The property of being shabby.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
*:He didn’t mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.
As an adjective shabby
is torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged.As a noun shabbiness is
the property of being shabby.shabby
English
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