Usage examples (36)

• When he did call the shabbiness of the house and the manifest poverty of the family rather disgusted him, but somehow Jennie seemed as sweet to him as ever.
• As the century waned, even the most ardent New Yorkers looked around and saw a kind of shabbiness at the heart of their town.
• (generally) behaving very ill on this question, and their shabbiness is the more striking because the Government have behaved so well.
• Well, maybe old money was allowed a little shabbiness.