shabby

adj

1. worn, shopworn, threadbare, faded; ragged, raggedy, in rags, tattered, frayed; mangy, ratty, scrubby, scruffy.

2. grungy, dingy, dirty, Inf. grubby, Scot. ourie; impoverished, sorry, down-and-out, down-at-the-heels, out-at-the-heels or elbows, the worse for wear.

3. slovenly, disheveled, slipshod, untidy, unkempt, unsightly, frowzy, blowzy, Inf. messy, frumpish, draggled, bedraggled, scraggly; ill-dressed, unfashionable, out-of-date, Inf. tacky.

4. dilapidated, deteriorated, battered, in disrepair, run-down, broken-down, tumble-down, ramshackle, seedy, Sl. crummy, Sl. beat-up; squalid, wretched, miserable, abject, slummy, slum-like.

5. mean, stingy, cheap, mingy, tight, tight-fisted, closefisted, miserly, niggardly, niggard, pinchpenny, penny-pinching, grudging, ungenerous, illiberal, beggarly, penurious, parsimonious.

6. base, base-spirited, low, vile, mean-spirited; contemptible, beneath contempt, worthy of contempt, despicable, detestable, odious, opprobrious, infamous, ignominious, sordid, heinous, atrocious, flagitious, abominable, degenerate, depraved, scurvy; ignoble, inglorious, discreditable, disreputable, dishonorable, rascally, villainous; coarse, vulgar, crude, uncouth, ungentlemanly, unhandsome, unbecoming.

7. inferior, mediocre, secondary, second-best, second-rate, third-rate, fourth-rate, substandard, below standard, subpar, below par; inadequate, insufficient, deficient, imperfect; incompetent, unskillful, maladroit; not to be compared or mistaken, not comparable, Inf. not a patch on it, Inf. out of the picture or running, Inf. not in the same league.