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• s  trying to maintain dignity and self respect despite shabbiness

• On thin savings he subsists for a while in a shabby-genteel London boardinghouse, at length moves on to the full depth of the slums.
• The Shaws, after all, he says, can be traced all the way back to 12th-Century Scotland, and it was perfectly outrageous for Bernard to portray them as shabby-genteel failures, and .
• The two men in Closer couldn't be starker, more lethal oppositesDan, the shabby-genteel journalist, fickle in his passions, quick to fall into love or loathing, and Larry, the .