[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

shabby \shab"by\, a. compar. shabbier; superl. shabbiest.
   see shab, n., scabby, and scab.
   1. torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.
      1913 webster

            wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts. --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   2. clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments. "the
      dean was so shabby." --swift.
      1913 webster

   3. mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment. "very
      shabby fellows." --clarendon.
      1913 webster
see also:
shabbier shabbiest shab scabby scab 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

shabby
     adj 1: showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat";
            "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows
            and tatty curtains" syn: moth-eaten, ratty, tatty
     2: mean and unworthy and despicable; "shabby treatment"
     also: shabbiest, shabbier
see also:
moth-eaten ratty tatty shabbiest shabbier 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

283 moby thesaurus words for "shabby":
   mickey mouse, ng, abandoned, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious,
   awful, bare, base, battered, beastly, beat-up, bedraggled,
   beggarly, beneath contempt, blameworthy, blowzy, broken-down,
   brutal, budget, careless, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse, common,
   contemptible, contemptuous, crummy, debased, decaying, decrepit,
   deficient, degraded, demeaning, deplorable, depraved, desolate,
   despicable, deteriorated, deteriorating, detestable, dilapidated,
   dingy, dire, dirty, disagreeable, discreditable, disfigured,
   disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, disreputable, dog-eared,
   dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, drabbletailed, draggled,
   draggletailed, dreadful, easy, economic, economy, egregious,
   enormous, execrable, faded, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul,
   fourth-class, frayed, frazzled, frowzy, frugal, frumpish, frumpy,
   full of holes, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, good-for-naught,
   good-for-nothing, grave, grievous, gross, grubby, grudging, grungy,
   hateful, heinous, holey, horrible, horrid, ignoble, ignominious,
   imperfect, impolite, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, inadequate,
   incompetent, inexpensive, infamous, inferior, informal, inglorious,
   insufficient, irregular, junk, junky, lamentable, little,
   loathsome, loose, lousy, low, low-class, low-down, low-grade,
   low-priced, low-quality, low-test, lowly, lumpen, maladroit,
   manageable, mangy, mean, mean-spirited, measly, mediocre,
   meretricious, messy, mingy, miserable, moderate, modest, monstrous,
   moth-eaten, mussy, nasty, nefarious, neglected, negligent, niggard,
   niggardly, no-account, no-good, noisome, nominal, not comparable,
   not in it, not worth having, not worth mentioning, not worthwhile,
   notorious, nugacious, nugatory, obnoxious, odious, offensive,
   opprobrious, out of it, outrageous, outworn, paltry, patchy,
   pathetic, penurious, peremptory, petty, pinchpenny, pitiable,
   pitiful, poky, poor, poverty-stricken, punk, ragged, raggedy,
   ramshackle, rank, ratty, reasonable, regrettable, reprehensible,
   reptilian, repulsive, rickety, rotten, rubbishy, rude, ruined,
   ruinous, run-down, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scraggly,
   scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second-best,
   second-class, seedy, sensible, shady, shameful, shattered,
   shocking, shoddy, slack, slatternly, sleazy, slipshod, sloppy,
   slovenly, slumlike, slummy, sluttish, small, sordid, sorry,
   squalid, stingy, tacky, tattered, tatty, terrible, third-class,
   third-rate, threadbare, tinny, tired, token, too bad, torn, trashy,
   trivial, trumpery, tumbledown, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny,
   twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unclean, uncouth, unexpensive,
   unfriendly, ungenerous, ungentlemanly, unhelpful, unkempt,
   unladylike, unmentionable, unneat, unpleasant, unrespectable,
   unsightly, unskillful, untidy, unworthy, valueless, vile,
   villainous, within means, woeful, worn, worn out, worn-out, worst,
   worth the money, worthless, wrecked, wretched

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