shabbiness

1 The place has obviously degenerated since his time; an air of shabbiness and thriftlessness prevails, and ancient smells by no means suggestive of "the odors of Araby the blest" obtrude upon the pilgrim.

2 The hospital now stands in all its grim shabbiness and ugliness, though a barn near by, filled with goods of all kinds, including a piano, of course, perished.

3 You could call this camp heaven, and indeed “Lily Dare,” a Primary Stages production, offers both the euphoria and the shabbiness that term can suggest.

4 The forms remind one a bit of sculptures by Richard Serra, but they lack Serra’s brute celebration of strength, suggesting the shabbiness and decay of industry rather than its militant force.

5 But if they’re dumb enough to post their shabbiness on social media, even if they assumed it would remain private, their professionalism and integrity are in tatters, and they pose a big liability going forward.

6 Of course, shabbiness is a hallmark of the new regime.

7 The lack of imagination in this decision staggers the mind, but the shabbiness of it is just plain old politics.

8 The shabbiness of the crowded Brooklyn neighborhood, in which nothing has a chance to grow anymore, is a constant reminder of how his dreams have come to naught.

9 Or that Old Trafford, essentially undeveloped in more than two decades, has an entirely appropriate air of shabbiness.

10 Those trains may be overdue for overhauls, but their shabbiness had rarely triggered the sort of emotional response Mr. Carlson had toward the restrooms.

11 Life in our tiny home is characterized above all by shabbiness.

12 Being young and from the sticks, I found the shabbiness displaced by the excitement of arriving in London.

13 Moonlight softens our faults; all shabbiness dissolves into shadow.

月光淡化了我们的各种缺点, 所有的卑微都化解为依稀朦胧的阴影.

14 The place was shabby, as befitted a hole-in-corner enterprise, but Terry saw not that shabbiness.

15 Her first apartment was pretty shabby.

16 I was struck by the shabbiness of the furnishings.

我感到惊讶的是家具非常破旧.

17 Though he won’t go there, the contrast between, say, the inefficiency and shabbiness of the Veterans Administration and the way the Fisher family operates is hard not to notice.

18 And her toleration of the diverse opinions of others enabled her to worship as comfortably under the high-vaulted magnificence of a Catholic cathedral as within the narrow shabbiness of a Wesleyan chapel.

19 If a landlord is willing to show an apartment in a state of shabbiness or disrepair, it’s a good sign he’ll be slow to address any maintenance requests, as well.

20 Ms. Gates joked about the shabbiness of her current office, as only someone about to move into much better accommodations would.

1 卑鄙

base cheap dirty shitty shabby despicable sleazy grubby squalid ignoble scummy seamy mean-minded shoddily shabbily meanly dirtily sleaze shoddiness grubbiness

2 破破烂烂

shabby tattered grotty wretchedly shabbily

3 卑劣

niddering mean small base ugly nasty sneaky shabby wretched despicable cowardly shoddy dastardly contemptible squalid underhand porcine scrubby sneaking scummy small-minded scabby low-down scabbed pettifogging verminous currish cheap shabbily meanly ignobly churlishly dirtily squalor littleness dirtiness churlishness dastardliness low down

4 不公正

raw unfair shabby injurious wrongly unfairly undeservedly shabbily wrong injustice iniquity unfairness wrongness

5 寒酸

poor tacky shabby lowly ticky-tacky shabbily meanly

6 破旧

conked-out beaten ragged dilapidated seedy sleazy decrepit scrubby clapped rattletrap poky moth-eaten rinky-dink klunky tattery seediness scruffiness

7 破败

shabby derelict run-down decayed tatty down at heel