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• n  a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing
• n  an unjust act

• Eventually, Nanaimo plans to equip its grass-cutting machines with GPS devices, so residents piqued by the apparent shabbiness of a particular park or grass verge can use Google to .
• The shabbiness of the surroundings underscores the diligent purpose of the event, at least for now.
• The place has a vaguely familiar feel to it, this air of transient shabbiness and nondescriptitude.

• seediness
• manginess
• sleaziness
• injustice
• unfairness
• iniquity

News & Articles

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• Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif in Tennessee Williams Rarity
  Here they are, New York, the ultimate brother-and-sister act, a pair of genetically matched hams who combine the narcissism, fearfulness, shabbiness and splendor of every actor who ever walked the boards.
  June 21, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Lawrence Small in Playfuls.com
  The buildings are shabby. That's the inescapable reality, and that shabbiness is unacceptable,Small said. "When people enter a Smithsonian museum, they should have an immense feeling of pride. Americans should look in awe at these...
• Christopher Isherwood in Wall Street Journal
  Christopher Isherwood wrote bitterly of the "mean puritanism" among Labour politicians who seemed to find "virtue in austerity and shabbiness, in controls and restrictions."