shabby
/ˈʃæbi/ verbo C2En español: desgastar, estropear, deteriorarse
- To make (something) shabby (adjective sense 1); to shabbify.
- To become shabby; to shabbify.
He/she/it shabbies · Pasado shabbied · Participio pasado shabbied · Forma en -ing shabbying
Formas del verbo
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- Pasado
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- Participio pasado
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- Forma en -ing
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Matthew, however, was spared the ordeal of speaking first, for as soon as she concluded that he was coming to her she stood up, grasping with one thin brown hand the handle of a shabby, old-fashioned carpet-bag; the other she held out to him.
Yet, in spite of his shabby and even absurd appearance, his voice had a sharp crackle, and his manner a quick intensity which commanded attention.
It was a poky, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere.
“No, no,” answered Dantès; “don’t imagine I am going to put you off in that shabby manner.
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