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What is another word for shabby?

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Adjective
▲
Dressed in old or worn clothes
scruffy
threadbare
worn
frayed
ragged
tattered
tatty
mangy
moth-eaten
ratty
faded
decrepit
worn-out
battered
old
raggedy
seedy
beat-up
bombed-out
dilapidated
dirty
dog-eared
dowdy
down-at-heel
down-at-the-heels
dumpy
grubby
grungy
mean
miserable
neglected
run-down
scrubby
sleazy
tacky
tatterdemalion
timeworn
tumbledown
well worn
worn out
raggedy-ass
warby
bare
bedraggled
decayed
decaying
degenerated
desolate
deteriorated
deteriorating
disfigured
meagreUK
meagerUS
pitiful
poor
poverty-stricken
rickety
ruined
ruinous
slipshod
tired
unkempt
untidy
worse for wear
down at heel
out at elbows
poorly maintained
falling apart at the seams
gone to seed
the worse for wear
having seen better days
more ❯
“There was an aura of displacement about him, I felt, and it wasn't because of his ragged clothes or the shabby appearance.”
Adjective
▲
Behaving in a mean or unfair way
contemptible
despicable
dirty
low
mean
cheap
rotten
shameful
unworthy
dishonourableUK
disreputable
ignoble
low-down
shoddy
discreditable
sorry
unfair
base
mean-spirited
nasty
ungentlemanly
unkind
hateful
scurvy
ungenerous
unpleasant
beastly
beggarly
cruel
despisable
disgraceful
dishonorableUS
disrespectful
ignominious
inconsiderate
inglorious
mercenary
miserly
natty
scummy
selfish
shady
stingy
thoughtless
more ❯
“By all accounts, the denunciations of shabby treatment by various news and current affairs programs come from around the room.”
Adjective
▲
In poor condition through long use or lack of care
scruffy
neglected
ramshackle
seedy
dilapidated
insalubrious
mean
squalid
tumbledown
dingy
rundown
slummy
tatty
uncared-for
crummy
grotty
grungy
miserable
run down
scuzzy
shambly
sordid
tacky
wretched
beat-up
down at heel
in disrepair
shacky
second-rate
inferior
more ❯
“He was standing in a room, now wearing a pair of grey pants, a white short-sleeved shirt, and a pair of shabby looking boots.”
Adjective
▲
Dirty or unclean, especially disgustingly so
filthy
dirty
unclean
soiled
grimy
foul
mucky
grubby
smudged
stained
sullied
begrimed
cruddy
muddy
dusty
grungy
smutty
polluted
draggled
befouled
grotty
besmirched
contaminated
dingy
nasty
sordid
bemired
blackened
sooty
bedraggled
uncleanly
black
unhygienic
squalid
festy
unsanitary
messy
putrid
slimy
scuzzy
smeared
unwashed
foetidUK
fetidUS
scummy
skanky
defiled
feculent
smelly
yucky
rotten
sleazy
bogging
putrefied
decaying
smoky
unkempt
miry
smeary
sloppy
slovenly
murky
crummy
disheveledUS
dishevelledUK
faecalUK
fecalUS
loathsome
repulsive
horry
revolting
slipshod
soily
verminous
yecchy
dirt-encrusted
mud-encrusted
more ❯
Adjective
▲
So appalling or contemptible that one almost feels sorry for it
pitiful
deplorable
wretched
lousy
poor
bad
awful
dreadful
terrible
sorry
lamentable
nasty
appalling
inadequate
contemptible
cheap
rotten
pathetic
pitiable
abysmal
dire
paltry
dirty
despicable
lame
dismal
mean
sad
worthless
disgraceful
woeful
grubby
cruddy
hopeless
useless
pants
laughable
ratty
scurvy
scummy
scabby
chronic
sneaking
feeble
pits
base
derisible
vile
a load of pants
well below par
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Of low or mediocre quality
trashy
inferior
poor
shoddy
mediocre
bad
lousy
cheap
terrible
miserable
wretched
rubbishy
execrable
rotten
junky
common
worthless
crummy
schlocky
sleazy
bum
gimcrack
cheapjack
schlock
trumpery
tawdry
coarse
cheesy
useless
poxy
cruddy
valueless
garbage
flimsy
catchpenny
second-rate
low-grade
low-rent
bargain-basement
cut-rate
el cheapo
poor quality
cheap-jack
no-good
of a sort
thrown together
low in quality
good-for-nothing
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Significantly below an amount or level that is adequate
meagreUK
meagerUS
scanty
scant
sparse
paltry
scarce
small
insufficient
inadequate
poor
skimpy
measly
inconsiderable
slight
exiguous
deficient
insubstantial
slim
stingy
slender
spare
light
little
sparing
short
inappreciable
skimp
wanting
weak
miserable
puny
mean
flimsy
derisory
bare
tenuous
minimum
barren
scrimpy
unfinished
unproductive
subtle
mere
infertile
scrimp
unfruitful
bitty
lacking
stinted
stunted
hand-to-mouth
too little too late
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Below average in standard or quality
imperfect
substandard
inferior
unsatisfactory
lousy
shoddy
crummy
unsound
rubbish
duff
ropy
schlocky
low
unfit
garbage
patchy
second-rate
below par
below standard
two-bit
tenth-rate
not up to scratch
not up to snuff
not much cop
bottom-of-barrel
poor
inadequate
crude
faulty
unacceptable
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Unduly concerned with trivial matters, especially in a small-minded or spiteful way
petty
small-minded
mean
grudging
narrow-minded
spiteful
ungenerous
cheap
illiberal
insular
Lilliputian
little
narrow
parochial
picayune
provincial
sectarian
small
mean-minded
stingy
contemptible
malicious
mean-spirited
petty-minded
resentful
vindictive
prejudiced
limited
intolerant
inflexible
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Built cheaply and shoddily
jerry-built
rough
crude
clumsy
unrefined
artless
rude
makeshift
ramshackle
rickety
flimsy
gimcrack
slipshod
unstable
insubstantial
shoddy
rough-hewn
rough-and-tumble
rough-and-ready
jerry-rigged
jury-rigged
thrown together
badly built
carelessly built
weak
frail
fragile
wobbly
shaky
breakable
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Dingy and stuffy
frowzy
dark
dingy
drab
dull
gloomy
close
dim
musty
stagnant
stale
stifling
stuffy
suffocating
unfresh
badly lit
frowsty
fuggy
poorly lit
seedy
tacky
run down
fusty
muggy
airless
humid
sultry
oppressive
heavy
unventilated
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Lower in rank or status
inferior
lesser
lowly
minor
humble
mediocre
menial
secondary
second-class
subordinate
unpretentious
base
insignificant
junior
low-ranking
second-string
small
subservient
subsidiary
unassuming
undistinguished
unimportant
ancillary
bottom
common
degrading
demeaning
inglorious
little
lousy
low
low-grade
meagreUK
meagerUS
measly
middling
miserable
ordinary
paltry
puny
reduced
second-fiddle
second-rate
smaller
contemptible
humdrum
ignoble
ignominious
lower
lower-ranking
petty
pitiful
plebeian
poorer
sad
scrubby
servile
slighter
sorry
wretched
bush-league
dinky
low-born
lower in rank
lower in status
mean
minor-league
small-fry
small-time
subjacent
third-string
undersized
back seat
below someone
beneath someone
bottom-rung
entry-level
less important
lower-class
not so important
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Done or performed without method or care
slipshod
sloppy
careless
offhand
slapdash
unmethodical
unorganisedUK
unorganizedUS
unsystematic
haphazard
heedless
lax
loose
messy
neglectful
negligent
remiss
slack
thoughtless
botched
casual
disorganisedUK
disorganizedUS
faulty
imperfect
inaccurate
inexact
junky
shoddy
threadbare
unmeticulous
unthorough
lackadaisical
unworkmanlike
hit-or-miss
slap-happy
all over the shop
all over the place
fly-by-night
more ❯
Adjective
▲
(of a room or building) Uncomfortably small and cramped
poky
cramped
small
tiny
confined
narrow
boxy
incommodious
little
restricted
tight
bijou
cell-like
compact
uncomfortable
strait
with no room to swing a cat
constricted
inadequate
minimal
sparse
limited
crowded
packed
squeezed
jammed
circumscribed
pent
matchbox
shrunken
more ❯
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