A lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing.
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Examples for "shabbiness "
Examples for "shabbiness "
1 Vivienne A Bamboos can go from shining health to shabbiness in weeks.
2 The rest came decked out in borrowed finery, or in undisguised shabbiness .
3 But to Chilcote the shabbiness was restful, the subdued atmosphere a satisfaction.
4 There was none of the occasional shabbiness or dowdiness of Michigan Avenue.
5 He had had enough of that and its rotten carelessness and shabbiness .
1 In the public mind, however, an air of rackety seediness surrounds the currency.
2 The sheer tattiness and seediness of postwar Britain is superbly conjured.
3 For better or worse, it's like Sin City without the seediness .
4 Here they appear a motley congregation, a curious agglomeration of seediness .
5 And wow, do these photos accentuate the seediness of the artwork.
1 Is there, we must repeatedly ask, anything new about the sleaziness of Donald Trump?
2 Axelrod shook his head mournfully at the sleaziness on display.
3 But all Doug had seen was the sleaziness of the prostitution ring and somehow associated India with it.
4 In every letter of yours I seem to find some reference to the sleaziness of your personal life.
5 He could not begin to match Earl in tenure or legislative acumen; nor, try as he might, in sleaziness .
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