Usage of "manginess" | TermGallery

A lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing.

Sinônimos

Examples for "shabbiness"

Vivienne A Bamboos can go from shining health to shabbiness in weeks. 
 The Guardian 

The rest came decked out in borrowed finery, or in undisguised shabbiness. 
 The Promised Land 

But to Chilcote the shabbiness was restful, the subdued atmosphere a satisfaction. 
 The Masquerader 

There was none of the occasional shabbiness or dowdiness of Michigan Avenue. 
 Fanny Herself 

He had had enough of that and its rotten carelessness and shabbiness. 
 The Captives 

In the public mind, however, an air of rackety seediness surrounds the currency. 
 The Guardian 

The sheer tattiness and seediness of postwar Britain is superbly conjured. 
 The Guardian 

For better or worse, it's like Sin City without the seediness. 
 Independent.ie 

Here they appear a motley congregation, a curious agglomeration of seediness. 
 Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 / Volume 18, New Series, J... 

And wow, do these photos accentuate the seediness of the artwork. 
 Wired 

Is there, we must repeatedly ask, anything new about the sleaziness of Donald Trump? 
 The Irish Times 

Axelrod shook his head mournfully at the sleaziness on display. 
 Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r... 

But all Doug had seen was the sleaziness of the prostitution ring and somehow associated India with it. 
 Bittersweet 

In every letter of yours I seem to find some reference to the sleaziness of your personal life. 
 A Confederacy of Dunces 

He could not begin to match Earl in tenure or legislative acumen; nor, try as he might, in sleaziness. 
 The capitol game 

Significados de manginess em inglês