Significats de shabby gentility en anglès

He was an exquisite image of shabby gentility.

This youth differed from the original Itzig only by a species of shabby gentility in his appearance.

Irish sturdy beggars idled and fiddled through existence, in dress of shabby gentility, with always a wig.

The Marshes, as she had previously known them, had been tottering on the edge of shabby gentility.

Bred to shabby gentility, Miss Alva Smith proceeded to "splurge" when she captured a Vanderbilt.

Down further and further went the heels of my shoes, and I drifted into that distressing condition " shabby gentility."

The man so ill-favored was dressed after the fashion of shabby gentility, a fashion which the rich not seldom try to copy.

Even the shabby gentility of the room, which his presence made her realize more vividly than ever, did not appear to strike him.

There was to Rowland's sympathetic sense a slightly pitiful disparity between the young sculptor's delicate countenance and the shabby gentility of his costume.

Its physical embodiment is the Kevin Andersen Room in the Everyman, a bright, open space perhaps most kindly described as possessing a shabby gentility.

Shabby gentility has nothing so characteristic as its hat.

"So you understand why I don't find Nightingale's shabby gentility impressive in any way."

"Yes, sir," the woman answered, with a semi-genteel manner which corresponded with the shabby gentility of her dress.