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How to use shabbiness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word shabbiness? Here are some examples.

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However, he soon began to realise that the shabbiness of his study was at odds with the elegance of the gown.
It has a certain shabbiness now, and that's unfortunate as it is only a very small proportion of the population which makes it that way.
There are holes in the material and it is roughly stitched together, its shabbiness evoking the deprivations of post-war Europe.
Some of its most loyal clients have taken their productions elsewhere, complaining of its general shabbiness.
This means that these latter are welcomed with unfailing respect, with their questionings, their richness and their shabbiness.
He was highly strung and had a low tolerance for shabbiness and mediocrity.
Rough clothing and general shabbiness proclaimed their lack of affluence, yet there was no rowdiness, and no one gave the two overworked barmaids trouble.
Why don't people do something about the shabbiness that surrounds us?
It was what he said when someone asked a question about the shabbiness of Bedouin villages in the Negev.
I was so stunned by the shabbiness of their arguments that it made me wonder how powerful this multitrillion-dollar industry is.
People love to come here for a walk or a rest, and it is precisely here that the shabbiness and emptiness of the old shops have the most negative effect on visitors.
Unthreatened by the muggings that were routine a decade earlier, we claimed the identity handed down to us: a certain shabbiness, along with a good dose of brains and a scrappy sense of local pride.
The work's material shabbiness and playacting artificiality intensified the effect, roping me into complicity with the artist's intention as efficiently as a halcyon film by Godard.
The bright mimosas and bougainvilleas of Rabat and the bustling business centre of Casablanca form a striking contrast with the dreary shabbiness and laissez-aller encountered elsewhere in the region.
The shabbiness of public transport is pushing people onto crowded roads.
It lit the backs of bindings, pictures, furniture which had reached exactly the right pitch of faded country-house shabbiness, curtains laundered hundreds of times over and music open above the keys of a piano.
Parks's keen eye for picturesque decay cannot disguise the poverty that characterises so much of this family's material life, a shabbiness most seek to overcome by carrying themselves in public with superhuman dignity.
However the city gave an appearance overall of shabbiness and decay.
So they walked till they came to Claremont and Kumalo was shocked by its shabbiness and dirtiness, and the closeness of the houses, and the filth in the streets.
Examples from Classical Literature
But it has an idle abundance and wantonness, a romantic shabbiness and dishevelment.
The shabbiness of the legislature must answer for it, if criminals remain at large.
The very shabbiness and paltriness of the fib made Anna's heart yearn over the poor lady.
Imposing, even in its shabbiness, stood the old house, at the end of an avenue of spired cedars.
When he reached the Nadir of shabbiness, he touted in Piccadilly among the cabs, and picked up a few coppers in that way.
Alan was unprepared for the shabbiness of the house where the gambler lived.
The old dress she wore as unconscious of its shabbiness as though it were a royal robe.
The shabbiness of the hotel where Helen lived surprised him.
Mentally she was taking a scornful inventory of her own shabbiness.
The little shabby creature had in a moment dropped her shabbiness.
He can let his hotel run down to the last degree of shabbiness and yet have it full of people all the time.
The Captain himself was in the last extremity of shabbiness, with large whiskers, and an old, old brown great-coat with no other coat below it.
The preservation of that garment was something marvellous to those who noticed the chevalier's high-bred indifference to its shabbiness.
Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
The hotel was continually losing patronage because of its shabbiness and she thought of herself as also shabby.
The hall had a puzzling look of equal nobility and shabbiness.
I was sorry to do this, for personally I liked it better as it was, with its weeds and its wild, rough tangle, its sweet, characteristic Venetian shabbiness.
Their gray uniforms were worn beyond the point of shabbiness.
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