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Перевод: shabbiness

[существительное]
поношенность ; убогость ; недостойность ; слабость ; низость ; скупость

Тезаурус:

1. The old houses were at their best in it, their shabbiness, the cracks in their fabric veiled, as an ageing face is veiled and smoothed by candlelight.
2. The very shabbiness of Hamley Hall in Wives and Daughters endears it to the reader; its neglected beauty makes it a home as the grand and prosperous Towers is not.
3. Mr Hurd recalled the last Lib-Lab pact in the late 1970s as "a period of shabbiness and indecision" and a time without social or economic achievement in which the Labour government lived from hand to mouth.
4. "The whole country was hostile its shabbiness I took for granted," Sisson recalls about his school-age surroundings.
5. Similarly in smaller conferences, shabbiness and tattiness of surroundings stick out more; everyone is closer to them.
6. The overall impression is one of rather old-fashioned comfort marred by a degree of shabbiness.
7. The dowager did her best to satisfy the nobility by trailing a number of them off to France, and getting pensions for them - even if some, like the master of Ruthven, complained about the shabbiness of the pay-off:.
8. Shabbiness she had expected, but not dirt and this air of something disreputable lurking though unseen.
9. The sun, slanting in through the window, showed up the faded shabbiness of the room, but outside the treetops were golden and the bees were loud in the roses.
10. One reason often given for the dispersal of books is their appearance , and not their physical state - any shabbiness or indication that people might actually be reading them - but the visual appeal of their dust-jacket design.
11. The shabbiness of the district and the dingy gloom of the school itself meant nothing to Clara.
12. When Merry blows it in the Shire the revolution against sloth and shabbiness and Saruman- "Sharkey" is on: no doubt Tolkien would have liked to be able in his own person to do the same.
13. Vain idiot, Briant thought, suddenly conscious of the obvious age of his own gray suit and the shabbiness of his faded blue shirt.