Definition of "shabbiness" [shab•bi•ness]

• The property of being shabby. (noun)

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• "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."
• "(generally) behaving very ill on this question, and their shabbiness is the more striking because the Government have behaved so well."
• "But that was more of an indictment of the general kind of shabbiness of the campaign, its disorganization, its vacuum of leadership at the top, which is probably the -- you know, a funny part of my book more than -- more than, you know, anything aimed to -- at, you know, taking on anyone, living or dead."