shabby

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100 Mbit uplink and 500Gb data, not too shabby!

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showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

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adjective

showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

adjective

mean and unworthy and despicable; "shabby treatment"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shabby.

adjective

showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

adjective

mean and unworthy and despicable; "shabby treatment"

Example sentences

100 Mbit uplink and 500Gb data, not too shabby!

Not shabby for 4 years of effort, but not what most investors are looking for.

If the source code is shabby, getting it might help a little in the short-term; it makes the whole process less reputable.

When the shabby old man is put on trial for jury tampering, shouldn't a jury of his peers find him not guilty?

Your sources are shabby, and you talk of "science" and "scientists" as some great collective, which is frankly impossible to do.

The idea that there is a "poor, uneducated, unacculturate" immigrant underclass in the UK is a racist lie. Recently arrived immigrants often find themselves at a disadvantage, but 2nd & 3rd generation communities are often wealthier, and better educated than "natives".Five or ten years ago, I would have told you that this kind of politicised bigotry was entirely outside the British mainstream... only practised by a tiny, shabby fringe.