Adjective

(er)

Torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged.

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They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.

Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.

The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.

Mean; paltry; despicable.

shabby treatment

Adjective

(en-adj)

(archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.

* 1819 : , The Sketch Book (The Voyage)

There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols.

Clumsy, awkward.

Unrefined, crude.

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