For “Shabby”, we’ve assembled answers that come directly from published puzzles. They were used and accepted when the same or nearly identical clue wording was featured.
Possible Answers:
- TATTY
- SEEDY
- IGNOBLE
- DOGEARED
- RATTY
- DINGY
- WORN
- DOWDY
- DOWNATHEEL
- THREADBARE
- SHODDY
- UNKIND
- DILAPIDATED
- TATTERED
- DOWNBEAT
- MOTHEATEN
- RUNDOWN
- RAGTAG
- MANGY
Synonyms and Definitions
TATTY
- Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, moth-eaten, ratty, tacky, tawdry, trashy
SEEDY
- Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, scruffy, seamy, sickly, sleazy, sordid, squalid, under the weather, unwell
IGNOBLE
- Synonyms: ungentle, untitled
RATTY
- Synonyms: tatty
DINGY
- Synonyms: begrimed, blue, dark, dirty, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, grimy, grubby, grungy, muddied, muddy, raunchy, sorry
WORN
- Synonyms: assume, bear, break, bust, careworn, don, drawn, endure, fag, fag out, fall apart, fatigue, get into, haggard, have on, hold out, jade, outwear, put on, raddled, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear off, wear out, wear thin, wear upon, weary
- Definition: wear
DOWDY
- Synonyms: dowding, frumpish, frumpy, pandowdy
THREADBARE
- Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
- Definition: Overused to the point of becoming overly familiar and repetitive.
SHODDY
- Synonyms: cheapjack, deceptive, jerry-built, misleading
UNKIND
- Synonyms: pitiless
DILAPIDATED
- Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, crumble, decay, derelict, dilapidate, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down
TATTERED
- Synonyms: shattered
RUNDOWN
- Synonyms: summation, summing up
RAGTAG
- Synonyms: rabble, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff
MANGY
- Synonyms: mangey