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▸ adjective: Of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing.
▸ adjective: (figurative)
▸ adjective: Of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean; also, not generous; stingy, tight-fisted.
▸ adjective: (often in the negative) Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.
▸ adjective: (medicine, archaic) Of the pulse: thready, weak.
▸ adjective: (UK, dialectal or informal) Of weather: wet and dreary.
▸ adjective: (UK, dialectal, veterinary medicine) Chiefly of sheep: affected by shab or scab (“a skin disease”); scabby.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make (something) shabby (adjective sense 1); to shabbify.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become shabby; to shabbify.
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worn,
ratty,
dishonourable,
tatty,
dishonorable,
moth-eaten,
raggedy,
raggedy-ass,
grungy,
dowdy,
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