Shabbiness

(noun.) a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing.

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• Look at a boy like Ned Silverton--he's really too good to be used to refurbish anybody's social shabbiness. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It seemed as though the prison's poverty, and shabbiness, and dirt, were growing in the sultry atmosphere. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• But when his boyish figure bobbed away, its shabbiness and cheerful patience smote the tears out of her eyes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The Captain himself was in the last extremity of shabbiness, with large whiskers, and an old, old brown great-coat with no other coat below it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The shabbiness of these attendants upon shabbiness, the poverty of these insolvent waiters upon insolvency, was a sight to see. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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