adj. 25B6; adjective
a shabby little bar : RUN DOWN, down at heel, scruffy, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumbledown; seedy, slummy, insalubrious, squalid, sordid; informal crummy, scuzzy, shambly; Brit. informal grotty; N. Amer. informal shacky.
a shabby grey coat : SCRUFFY, old, worn out, threadbare, ragged, frayed, tattered, battered, faded, moth-eaten, mangy; informal tatty, ratty, the worse for wear; N. Amer. informal raggedy.
her shabby treatment of Ben : CONTEMPTIBLE, despicable, dishonourable, discreditable, mean, low, dirty, hateful, shameful, sorry, ignoble, unfair, unworthy, unkind, shoddy, nasty; informal rotten, low-down; Brit. informal beastly.
smart, honourable.