Shabby in spanish
pronunciation: enmɑlestɑdoʊ part of speech: adjective
shabby [shabbier -comp., shabbiest -sup.]1 = desharrapado, desarrapado, andrajoso, zarrapastroso, harapiento, cutre, traspillado. [Pincha en o en para ver otros adjetivos cuyo grados comparativos y superlativos se formas añadiendo "-er" o "-est" (o sus variantes "-r" o "-st") al final]
Example: Behind the shabby desk was a rather shabby man, with a tired and indecisive face.more:
» all too shabby = demasiado chabacano.
Example: The author compares the high tech dreams of access to information technology for US school libraries with the all too shabby reality that currently exists.» shabby-looking = desharrapado, desarrapado, andrajoso, zarrapastroso, harapiento, cutre, traspillado.
Example: A woman was walking down the street when she was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless woman who asked her for a couple of dollars for dinner.» shabby reality = sórdida realidad.
Example: The author compares the high tech dreams of access to information technology for US school libraries with the all too shabby reality that currently exists.» shabby trick = jugarreta, mala jugada, mala pasada, bellaquería, bellacada, barrabasada, diablura, cabronada, putada.
Example: Here was a man whom President Washington, before his death, had come to think capable of shabby tricks.shabby [shabbier -comp., shabbiest -sup.]2 = muy usado, de mala calidad, raído, gastado, pacotilla. [Pincha en o en para ver otros adjetivos cuyo grados comparativos y superlativos se formas añadiendo "-er" o "-est" (o sus variantes "-r" o "-st") al final]
Example: Seventeenth-century English printing was abysmally poor, and there are few books that were not set in ill-cast, battered type, clumsily arranged and carelessly printed in brown ink on shabby paper.