shabbiness
11shabby — [[t]ʃæ̱bi[/t]] shabbier, shabbiest 1) ADJ GRADED Shabby things or places look old and in bad condition. His clothes were old and shabby... He walked past her into a tiny, shabby room. ...one of the shabbiest and poorest areas of London. Syn:… …
12manginess — noun a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing • Syn: ↑shabbiness, ↑seediness, ↑sleaziness • Derivationally related forms: ↑sleazy (for: ↑sleaziness), ↑mangy, ↑ …
13raggedness — noun 1. a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven • Syn: ↑roughness • Ant: ↑smoothness (for: ↑roughness) • Derivationally related forms: ↑ragged, ↑ …
14seediness — noun a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing • Syn: ↑shabbiness, ↑manginess, ↑sleaziness • Derivationally related forms: ↑sleazy (for: ↑sleaziness), ↑mangy …
15sleaziness — noun 1. morally dishonorable an embarrassing sleaziness that I hope will be corrected by the more ethical newspapers • Derivationally related forms: ↑sleazy • Hypernyms: ↑dishonorableness, ↑dishonourableness 2. a lack of elegance as a consequence …
16unfairness — noun 1. partiality that is not fair or equitable • Ant: ↑fairness • Derivationally related forms: ↑unfair • Hypernyms: ↑partiality, ↑partisanship 2. an unjust act …
17shabby — adjective (shabbier; est) Etymology: obsolete English shab a low fellow Date: 1669 1. clothed with worn or seedy garments < a shabby hobo > 2. a. threadbare and faded from wear < a shabby sofa > b. ill kept …
18threadbare — adjective Date: 14th century 1. a. having the nap worn off so that the thread shows ; shabby < threadbare clothes > b. wearing threadbare clothing ; very poor < took in threadbare relatives Russell Baker > c. barely adequate because of cheapness… …
19Metin Kaçan — (b.1961, Kayseri, Turkey) is a Turkish author who is best known for his novels Ağır Roman (Cholera Street), and Fındık Sekiz. Ağır Roman has been translated into German (Kaçan 2003), and a movie (Ağır Roman), directed by Mustafa Altıoklar (1999) …
20Keep the Aspidistra Flying —   …
