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"etymology_text": "The adjective is derived from shab (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) scaly skin disease; skin disease of sheep; crust forming over wound, scab”) + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives).\nThe verb is derived from the adjective.\nCognates\n* Dutch schabbig (“poor, needy, shabby”)\n* Middle High German schebic (modern German schäbig (“shabby”))\n* Middle Low German schabbich (“miserable”) (modern Low German schabbig, schäbbig)\n* Scots shabby (“in poor health, ill”)\n* Swedish sjabbig (“shabby, mangy, scruffy”), skabbig (“scabby”)",
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"form": "shabbier",
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"text": "They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.",
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"ref": "1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “Nicholas seeks to employ himself in a New Capacity, and being unsuccessful, accepts an engagement as Tutor in a Private Family”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 143:",
"text": "[A]s there was a stream of people pouring into a shabby house not far from the entrance, he waited until they had made their way in, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1867, George MacDonald, “The Bishop’s Basin”, in Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood […], volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 154:",
"text": "[C]ommonplace books are generally new, or at least in fine bindings. And here was a shabby little old book, such as, if it had been commonplace, would not have been likely to be the companion of a young lady at the bottom of a quarry— […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1882, [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “‘And Pale from the Past We Draw nigh Thee’”, in Mount Royal […], volume II, London: John and Robert Maxwell […], →OCLC, page 179:",
"text": "[They] lived […] in one of the shabbiest streets in the debatable land between Pimlico and Chelsea—by courtesy, South Belgravia.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:",
"text": "Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1927 May, Virginia Woolf, chapter 5, in To the Lighthouse (Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf), new edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1930, →OCLC, part I (The Window), page 47:",
"text": "[T]hings got shabbier and got shabbier summer after summer. The mat was fading; the wall-paper was flapping. You couldn't tell any more that those were roses on it. Still, if every door in a house is left perpetually open, and no lockmaker in the whole of Scotland can mend a bolt, things must spoil.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 703:",
"text": "Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.",
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"Of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect; scruffy."
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"word": "decrepit"
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"word": "moth-eaten"
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{
"word": "run-down"
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{
"word": "timeworn"
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{
"word": "tired"
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{
"word": "deteriorated"
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"word": "ramshackle"
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "bālin",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "بَالٍ"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
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"roman": "iznosen",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "износен"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "iztǎrkan",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "изтъркан"
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "zahaben",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "захабен"
},
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"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "tronat"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "ceb",
"lang": "Cebuano",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "nagkagidlay"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pòjiù",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "破舊 /破旧"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "omšelý"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "ošuntělý"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "zchátralý"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "haveloos"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "slonzig"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "nuhjuinen"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "nuhruinen"
},
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"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "nukkavieru"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "élimé"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "miteux"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "râpé"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "usé"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "schäbig"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "logoro"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "boroboro",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "ぼろぼろ"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "nuchu",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "누추"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "schappeg"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "kanukanu"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "pūtaitai"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "taretare"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "êvâtchi"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "esbodegado"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "esfarrapado"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "estropiado"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "ponosit"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "sărăcăcios"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "uzat"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "zdrențăros"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vétxij",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "ве́тхий"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubógij",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "убо́гий"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "ru",
"english": "pathetic",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "žálkij",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "жа́лкий"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "ru",
"english": "neglected",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zapúščennyj",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "запу́щенный"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zaxudályj",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "захуда́лый"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "олѝњао"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "по̀ха̄бан"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "olìnjao"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "pòhāban"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "astroso"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "cutre"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "raído"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "zarrapastroso"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "sjabbig"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "maläten"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "sjavig"
},
{
"_dis1": "56 5 7 8 8 8 7",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "sliten"
}
]
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{
"text": "The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1765, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Essay V”, in Essays. […], London: […] W[illiam] Griffin […], →OCLC, page 37:",
"text": "The ſame gentleman, vvhenever he vvanted credit for a ſuit of cloaths, alvvays made the propoſal in a laced coat; for he found by experience, that, if he appeared ſhabby on theſe occaſions, his taylor had taken an oath againſt truſting; […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1782, [Frances Burney], “A Man of Wealth”, in Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Payne and Son […], and T[homas] Cadell […], →OCLC, book II, page 156:",
"text": "She told her name, and vvas ſhevvn, by a little ſhabby foot-boy, into a parlour.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1882, [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “And Pale from the Past We Draw Nigh to Thee”, in Mount Royal […], volume II, London: John and Robert Maxwell […], →OCLC, page 179:",
"text": "He was an affectionate brother, always glad to do a good turn to his sisters—who lived with a shabby old half-pay father, […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing."
],
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"wear#Verb"
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[
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"ragged#Adjective"
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[
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"text": "They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.",
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"ref": "1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “Nicholas seeks to employ himself in a New Capacity, and being unsuccessful, accepts an engagement as Tutor in a Private Family”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 143:",
"text": "[A]s there was a stream of people pouring into a shabby house not far from the entrance, he waited until they had made their way in, […]",
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"ref": "1867, George MacDonald, “The Bishop’s Basin”, in Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood […], volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 154:",
"text": "[C]ommonplace books are generally new, or at least in fine bindings. And here was a shabby little old book, such as, if it had been commonplace, would not have been likely to be the companion of a young lady at the bottom of a quarry— […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1882, [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “‘And Pale from the Past We Draw nigh Thee’”, in Mount Royal […], volume II, London: John and Robert Maxwell […], →OCLC, page 179:",
"text": "[They] lived […] in one of the shabbiest streets in the debatable land between Pimlico and Chelsea—by courtesy, South Belgravia.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:",
"text": "Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.",
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},
{
"ref": "1927 May, Virginia Woolf, chapter 5, in To the Lighthouse (Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf), new edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1930, →OCLC, part I (The Window), page 47:",
"text": "[T]hings got shabbier and got shabbier summer after summer. The mat was fading; the wall-paper was flapping. You couldn't tell any more that those were roses on it. Still, if every door in a house is left perpetually open, and no lockmaker in the whole of Scotland can mend a bolt, things must spoil.",
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},
{
"ref": "1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 703:",
"text": "Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.",
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"word": "decrepit"
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"word": "moth-eaten"
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"word": "run-down"
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"text": "The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.",
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"ref": "1765, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Essay V”, in Essays. […], London: […] W[illiam] Griffin […], →OCLC, page 37:",
"text": "The ſame gentleman, vvhenever he vvanted credit for a ſuit of cloaths, alvvays made the propoſal in a laced coat; for he found by experience, that, if he appeared ſhabby on theſe occaſions, his taylor had taken an oath againſt truſting; […]",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1782, [Frances Burney], “A Man of Wealth”, in Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Payne and Son […], and T[homas] Cadell […], →OCLC, book II, page 156:",
"text": "She told her name, and vvas ſhevvn, by a little ſhabby foot-boy, into a parlour.",
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{
"ref": "1882, [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “And Pale from the Past We Draw Nigh to Thee”, in Mount Royal […], volume II, London: John and Robert Maxwell […], →OCLC, page 179:",
"text": "He was an affectionate brother, always glad to do a good turn to his sisters—who lived with a shabby old half-pay father, […]",
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"text": "(not generous):"
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{
"text": "shabby treatment",
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{
"ref": "1856, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “Of the Loves of Mr. Perkins and Miss Gorgon, and of the Two Great Factions in the Town of Oldborough”, in “The Bedford-Street Conspiracy”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume III, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC, page 473:",
"text": "It was voted a shabby excuse.",
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{
"ref": "1857, David Livingstone, chapter III, in Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 68:",
"text": "I, being more of a native, and familiar with their customs, knew that this shabby present was an insult to us.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1892 January 4 (first performance), W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, librettist; Alfred Cellier, [Ivan Caryll], composers, […] The Mountebanks, London: Chappell & Co., […], published 1892, →OCLC, Act I, page 11:",
"text": "What shabby things a man will do when he's eaten up with jealousy! But what a comfort those shabby things are to him! […] I'm disgusted with myself for having stooped to such a contemptible act.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"word": "stingy"
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"Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.",
"Of the pulse: thready, weak."
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"Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.",
"Chiefly of sheep: affected by shab or scab (“a skin disease”); scabby."
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{
"text": "His painting is not too shabby.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Campaign of 1707, 1708”, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume II, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC, page 252:",
"text": "[M]y Lord Duke's entertainments were both ſeldom and ſhabby […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1865, John Stuart Mill, “Of Some Minor Peculiarities of Doctrine in Sir William Hamilton’s View of Formal Logic”, in An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy, […], London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, →OCLC, page 448:",
"text": "So unlooked-for a paradox required to be defended by the strongest arguments: who, then, would expect such shabby, not arguments, but hints of arguments, as the author presents us with?",
"type": "quote"
}
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"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "bālin",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "بَالٍ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "iznosen",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "износен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "iztǎrkan",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "изтъркан"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zahaben",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "захабен"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "tronat"
},
{
"code": "ceb",
"lang": "Cebuano",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "nagkagidlay"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pòjiù",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "破舊 /破旧"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "omšelý"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "ošuntělý"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "zchátralý"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "haveloos"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "slonzig"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "nuhjuinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "nuhruinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "nukkavieru"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "élimé"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "miteux"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "râpé"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "usé"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "schäbig"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "logoro"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "boroboro",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "ぼろぼろ"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "nuchu",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "누추"
},
{
"code": "lb",
"lang": "Luxembourgish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "schappeg"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "kanukanu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "pūtaitai"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "taretare"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "êvâtchi"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "esbodegado"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "esfarrapado"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "estropiado"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "ponosit"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "sărăcăcios"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "uzat"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "zdrențăros"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vétxij",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "ве́тхий"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubógij",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "убо́гий"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "pathetic",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "žálkij",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "жа́лкий"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "neglected",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zapúščennyj",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "запу́щенный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zaxudályj",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "захуда́лый"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "олѝњао"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "по̀ха̄бан"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "olìnjao"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "pòhāban"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "astroso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "cutre"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "raído"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
"word": "zarrapastroso"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect — see also worn",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dripav",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "дрипав"
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "opǎrpan",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
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"code": "ceb",
"lang": "Cebuano",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "nagkagidlay"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pòlàn",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "破爛 /破烂"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "ošuntělý"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "otrhaný"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "nuhjuinen"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "nuhruinen"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "nukkavieru"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "atrouxado"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "esfarrapado"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "schäbig"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "boroboro",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "ぼろぼろ"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "esfarrapado"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "zdrențuit"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "обветша́лый"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "плюга́вый"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "ве́тхий"
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"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "andrajoso"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "desarrapado"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "harapiento"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "zarrapastroso"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "luggsliten"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing",
"word": "sjavig"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nizǎk",
"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
"word": "низък"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "podǎl",
"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
"word": "подъл"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
"word": "卑鄙"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "kèbó",
"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
"word": "刻薄"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
"word": "nečestný"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
"word": "podlý"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
"word": "sprostý"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
"word": "onneton"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
"word": "surkea"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
"word": "minable"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
"word": "schäbig"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
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"word": "meschino"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
"word": "josnic"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
"word": "ticălos"
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean — see also despicable, mean",
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"sense": "poor in quality; showing little effort or talent",
"word": "hääppöinen"
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"word": "chimbo"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "poor in quality; showing little effort or talent",
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"ref": "1962, Doris Lessing, “The Golden Notebook”, in The Golden Notebook (Flamingo Modern Classics), London: Flamingo, HarperCollinsPublishers, published 1993, →ISBN, page 544:",
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