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Shabby vs. Tattered

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Shabbyadjective

Torn or worn; unkempt.

‘They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.’;

Tatteredadjective

Rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged.

Shabbyadjective

Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.

‘The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.’;

Tatteredadjective

Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged.

Shabbyadjective

Mean; paltry; despicable.

‘shabby treatment’;

Tatteredadjective

(obsolete) Dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks; jagged; broken.

Shabbyadjective

Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.

‘Wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts.’;

Tatteredverb

simple past tense and past participle of tatter

Shabbyadjective

Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.

Tatteredadjective

worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing;

‘a man in a tattered shirt’; ‘the tattered flag’; ‘tied up in tattered brown paper’; ‘a tattered barefoot boy’; ‘a tatterdemalion prince’;

Shabbyadjective

Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment.

Tatteredadjective

ruined or disrupted;

‘our shattered dreams of peace and prosperity’; ‘a tattered remnant of its former strength’; ‘my torn and tattered past’;

Shabbyadjective

showing signs of wear and tear;

‘a ratty old overcoat’; ‘shabby furniture’; ‘an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains’;

Shabbyadjective

mean and unworthy and despicable;

‘shabby treatment’;

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