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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 schäbig "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.

词态变化

比较级 shabbier;
最高级 shabbiest;
副词 shabbily;
名词 shabbiness;

1. It was hard to say why the man deserved such shabby treatment.: 真搞不懂为什么这个人就该受到如此不公正的待遇。

2. Selling their fans short in such a shabby way is not acceptable.: 如此过分地怠慢他们的崇拜者令人无法接受。

4. The flat was small but attractive, if rather shabby.: 虽然有些老旧，这仍不失为一个漂亮的小公寓。

shabby-genteel 死要面子的

treatment shabby [经] 待遇菲薄(低...

not too shabby 1. adjective [slang] （重读shabby）“挺好的” ；“干得不错” 2. adjective [slang] （重读too）非常破旧的，非常穷的（讽刺语）

treatment shabby 【经】待遇菲薄(低劣)

这些形容词均有“卑鄙的，卑贱的，卑下的”之意。
low指行为卑鄙、可耻、下文明，可引申指庸俗。
mean暗示狠毒、贪婪、缺乏尊严感等为人们所不耻的卑鄙、自私、渺小的行为。
cheap侧旨人或物的品质低劣下贱。
shabby指行为的不公和卑劣而使人感到不屑和轻蔑。

shabby 卑鄙的 ——傻比
2. scab => shabby.