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shabbiness|ˈʃæbɪnɪs| [-ness.] The quality or state of being shabby (in various senses).
1711Addison Spect. No. 31 ⁋1 The Shabbiness of his Dress. 1712Steele Ibid. No. 264 ⁋2 His gay Shabbyness of Clothes. 1827Syd. Smith Cath. Quest. Wks. 1859 II. 120/1 Explaining away this sale of your soul by every species of falsehood, shabbiness, and equivocation. 1863M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Vict. I. i. 3 In spite of..the shabbiness of her straw bonnet. 1899Doyle Duet (1909) 69/1 His occasional shabbiness in money matters. |