shabby

• adj.みすぼらしい; 下品な; 意地悪な; 粗末な

scab, scabby, sore, -y, 形容詞接尾辞に相当する。派生語で汚い、みすぼらしい、擦り切れた。

shabby

shabby: [17] Etymologically, shabby means ‘scabby’. It comes from a now obsolete shab, which denoted ‘scab’, and also metaphorically ‘disreputable fellow’. It was the native equivalent to Old Norse *skabbr ‘scab’, from which English gets scab.
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shabby (adj.)

1660s, of persons, "poorly dressed," with -y (2) + shab "a low fellow" (1630s), literally "scab" (now only dialectal in the literal sense, in reference to a disease of sheep), from Old English sceabb (the native form of the Scandinavian word that yielded Modern English scab; also see sh-). Similar formation in Middle Dutch schabbich, German sch?big "shabby."

Of clothes, furniture, etc., "of mean appearance, no longer new or fresh" from 1680s; meaning "inferior in quality" is from 1805. Figurative sense "contemptibly mean" is from 1670s. Related: Shabbily; shabbiness. Shabby-genteel "run-down but trying to keep up appearances, retaining in present shabbiness traces of former gentility," first recorded 1754. Related: Shabaroon "disreputable person," c. 1700.

1. It was hard to say why the man deserved such shabby treatment.

なぜこの人がこのような不公正な扱いを受けるべきなのか分からない。

2.Selling their fans short in such a shabby way is not acceptable.

このように過度に彼らを怠った崇拝者は受け入れられない。

3.He walked past her into a tiny， shabby room.

彼は彼女のそばを通り、狭い粗末な部屋に入った。

4.The flat was small but attractive，if rather shabby .

少し古いですが、これはきれいな小さなアパートです。

5.He looked unshaven， shabby ，and down-and-out.

彼はひげが薄く、ぼろぼろで、困窮しているように見える。