(1) A degree of shabbiness in personal attire is now sought, and all but universally among the young.

(2) The shabbiness of the district and the dingy gloom of the school itself meant nothing to Clara.

(3) Moonlight softens our faults; all shabbiness dissolves into shadow.

(4) He had cast the shabbiness of extreme footigue.

(5) I was struck by the shabbiness of the furnishings.

(6) The peeling paint and cracked floor tiles exuded shabbiness and it was made narrower by the trolleys parked down the sides.

(7) The overall impression is one of rather old-fashioned comfort marred by a degree of shabbiness.

(8) But I was not one to look down my nose at shabbiness.

(9) It was not a comfortable environment for the boarders, but its very shabbiness made it liveable in.

(10) The place has a vaguely familiar feel to it, this air of transient shabbiness and nondescriptitude.

(11) Their gray uniforms were worn beyond the point of shabbiness.

(12) He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.

(13) At last they found on the quay one of those ancient night cabs which, as though they were ashamed to show their shabbiness during the day, are never seen round Paris until after dark.

(14) Writing in the Guardian, Timothy Garton Ash sees a Third World shabbiness when he visits the United States.

(15) Given a few days however, the city begins to reveal its true character and the shabbiness matters less.