A lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing.
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Vivienne A Bamboos can go from shining health to shabbiness in weeks.
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The rest came decked out in borrowed finery, or in undisguised shabbiness.
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But to Chilcote the shabbiness was restful, the subdued atmosphere a satisfaction.
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There was none of the occasional shabbiness or dowdiness of Michigan Avenue.
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He had had enough of that and its rotten carelessness and shabbiness.
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It was not ancient, yet it looked old from shabbiness and neglect.
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She assured Hahn that its shabbiness did not show from the front.
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In spite of all her shabbiness the girl was pretty and fresh.
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The directors can't understand such freedom, such language, such shabbiness, such Bohemianism.
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What have you to do with Holloway, and shabbiness, and starving people?
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The side street was her destiny; the side street and shabbiness.
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My present shabbiness allowed me to bring this to you unmolested.
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What immediately came to mind was an impression of general shabbiness.
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The little shabby creature had in a moment dropped her shabbiness.
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The shabbiness of the beggarly creature was a consolation to her.
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I felt cold, and the shabbiness of Marie's room depressed me.
