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Shabby-genteel   /ʃˈæbi-dʒɛntˈil/   Listen
Shabby-genteel

adjective
1.
Trying to maintain dignity and self respect despite shabbiness.





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"Shabby-genteel" Quotes from Famous Books



... friend. Great was her enjoyment of this expedition; she said she had not had a walk worth having since she was at Aix-la-Chapelle, and liberty and companionship compensated for all the heat and dust in the dreary tract, full of uncomfortable shabby-genteel abodes, and an ...
— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. II) • Charlotte M. Yonge
... as far as Aldersgate; and a short walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular story which we had listened to in the morning. 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 ...
— Short Stories of Various Types • Various


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