Sep 19, 2010

shabby

1
: clothed with worn or seedy garments {a shabby hobo}
2
a : threadbare and faded from wear {a shabby sofa} b : ill-kept : dilapidated {a shabby neighborhood}
3
a : mean, despicable, contemptible {must feel shabby…because of his compromises — Nat Hentoff} b : ungenerous, unfair {laments the shabby way in which this country often treated a poet — Paul Engle{ c : inferior in quality {shabby reasoning}