shabbiness
Example Sentences
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The film follows an English family between the world wars and emphasizes the dull shabbiness of the setting’s middle-class life, the house and costumes coming in every shade of brown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
The beauties are the glamor routes, the passenger trains that, whatever shabbiness may have befallen their interiors, more than make up for it with the grandeur of what lies outside their windows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2023
There were plenty of interesting design twists: One jean jacket in Japanese denim had a regal stiffness, which nicely contrasting with the shabbiness of one of its breast pockets being missing.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
Your best-known characters now are men who, underneath their exterior shabbiness, possess at least the potential to redeem themselves.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2021
Father hinted as much as he dared—for next to his shabbiness Christoffels’ most notable quality was his pride—and then gave it up.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
