We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of shabby in inglés
Sinónimos
Examples for "ratty"
Examples for "ratty"
1
You need to do better than a ratty T-shirt and a ponytail.
2
Save for the ratty beard, he looked more Christian quarterback then eco-saboteur.
3
It was a ratty head of straight black hair, and looked greasy.
4
She bent down to tie the laces of her ratty Converse sneakers.
5
But Joey just sat curled up on the ratty sofa and cried.
1
The tatty shop was just down the road from where we played.
2
There's just something funny and likable about your average, everyday, tatty pigeon.
3
His tatty shoes were falling apart, and he only had shorts on.
4
Gradually the tavern did not seem tatty and rude, but excitingly wicked.
5
But beneath this tatty comfort blanket, there are two starkly naked truths.
1
Teolin sat down wrapped in his moth-eaten bearskin and set to work.
2
Sean stepped up to the window and pulled the moth-eaten curtains back.
3
I picked you up because of your moth-eaten morals, I dare say.
4
Everything I came up with was too moth-eaten for even me to believe.
5
A gold locket, shaped like a hardcover book, hung outside her moth-eaten turtleneck.
Usage of shabby in inglés
1
The violence has overwhelmed the shabby, low-rise city and destroyed its economy.
2
The top picture shows a shabby town square in rural southern France.
3
This far south-west, the trees are still wearing their shabby summer leaves.
4
Musharraf, Khan argued, had begun yet another shabby chapter in Pakistan's history.
5
Her little feet in the shabby, worn-out shoes scarcely touched the floor.
6
The library was spacious, the furniture in good taste but getting shabby.
7
I lived there for some time; and was very shabby and dirty.
8
For the rest, the furniture of the room was shabby and ugly.
9
The effect in that shabby little house was one of exhilarating congestion.
10
So there, in the shabby lodging-house, the little scheme was hatched out.
11
The two youngest made friends with me in their shabby little garden.
12
What a shabby way to seek the dissolution of the 29th Dáil.
13
They kept a shabby room in a nearby hotel for that purpose.
14
In the shabby main room of that dwelling, Andre-Louis halted him again.
15
She entered the shabby little sitting-room and sank into the nearest chair.
16
The story represents a feeble attempt to sanctify a morally shabby conquest.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Shabby through the time
Shabby across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Less common