adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
clothes
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He was wearing the unobtrusive shabby clothes with soft shoes that would allow him to plod round the streets without being noticed.
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The drabness of his surroundings, his own shabby clothes were explained and transformed by these books.
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He wore shabby clothes and shoes and a black silk scarf, always, outdoors and in.
room
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At the top of the Holiday Inn tower in Des Moines, a shabby room has been brightened with balloons.
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Saskia wakes before dawn in her cold, shabby room to imagine herself navigating with Odysseus and marking the constellations.
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The old and shabby rooms , flower-filled and soft with candlelight, would ring with voices and laughter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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shabby hotel rooms
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a shabby old man
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a shabby suit
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John was standing in the doorway in his shabby blue suit.
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She wore shabby black clothes, with holes in the elbows of her jacket.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After this, Tate Britain at Millbank feels cramped, parsimonious and a bit shabby .
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At 29 Howard's Avenue the builder's skip was still outside and the rusty scaffolding blinded its shabby windows.
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By then, of course, it was totally shabby .
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Much to the consternation of the operators, Humphrey's shabby figure would appear and then disappear into high-speed machinery.
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Politically, it was essential last summer to distance the government from what had clearly been a shabby episode.
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Solid provincial comfort, a little shabby now, but solid.
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The villages and towns they passed through were shabby where buildings had long since been left to decay.