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Recent Examples of shabby Heidi gave the wood trim a ‘shabby chic’ sanding job, which survives to this day. Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2024 But in the late 1980s, Ports O’ Call Village faded and grew shabby, a victim of changing tastes in entertainment and dwindling investment in its upkeep and improvement. Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024 Christina’s house turns out to be a shabby roadside shack, and her life more baffling than Grace could possibly have imagined. Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2024 In many ways, the instantly recognizable world of Monica Geller’s apartment in Friends—warm, eclectic, and invitingly shabby chic—is a love letter to production designer John Shaffner’s old New York City apartment. Thea Glassman, Architectural Digest, 18 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for shabby 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shabby
Adjective
  • So where does this leave buyers without a few million in cash to throw down on a dilapidated brownstone?
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 23 Dec. 2024
  • By then, mice and cats had beat him to it, nesting into the corners of the Nora Store and in its dilapidated kitchen.
    Angela George, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • McArdle looked down and felt a surge of sadness: The man was sleeping on several layers of cardboard, his head resting on a backpack, a tattered book slipped beneath it.
    Greg Borowski, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Shane Colombo’s father, Ernesto, brought a tattered file of paperwork to each day of the court proceedings.
    Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • In the century that followed, amputation remained a neglected area of medicine.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The business owners hoped to revitalize a neglected commercial stretch.
    Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 28 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Again, this somewhat ragged rendition isn’t equal to the multi-layered studio version or live ones heard on bootlegs; in particular, the Stills and Young interplay from a Dallas 1968 show makes the Springfield sound like the true originators of the jam band concept.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Carl Wanderer was sentenced to hang for killing the unnamed ragged stranger.
    Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Its faded and dusty mansions are spangled with Italian marble floors, Mudéjar ceilings, and the fanciest European furniture of the day, now wracked by termites.
    Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The board has been forgotten, but its presence looms over everything, not unlike the faded eyes of oculist Dr. T.J. Eckleburg, whose gaze sees all, even quietly desperate Bravo-show guest features that go nowhere.
    Kinsey Jasnoch, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024

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“Shabby.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shabby. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.

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