单词 | shabbiness |
释义 | shabbyshabby /ˈʃæbi/ adjective (comparative shabbier, superlative shabbiest) 1old and in bad condition from being used for a long time: a shabby suit shabby hotel rooms2shabby treatment behavior toward someone that is unfair and not nice: I don’t know what we did to deserve such shabby treatment.3something is not (too) shabby informal used to show that you think something is very good: Our profits were up by 35% last year. That’s not too shabby.4wearing clothes that are old and in bad condition: a shabby old man [Origin: 1600–1700 shab scab, worthless man (11–19 centuries), from Old English sceabb scab]—shabbily adverb—shabbiness noun [uncountable] |
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