Crossword-Solution: SHABBIER
We have 6 clues for the answer “SHABBIER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Looking more lived-in | 1 answer |
| Not as kempt | 1 answer |
| More worn-out in appearance | 1 answer |
| Not so fine | 2 answers |
| More moth-eaten | 2 answers |
| More ragged | 2 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MACEZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SHABBIER (5)
The more Tom stared at the splendid marvel, the higher he turned up his nose at his finery and the shabbier and shabbier his own outfit seemed to him to grow.
There she was at last, the poor pale shade of Evelina, her thin face blanched of its faint pink, the stiff ripples gone from her hair, and a mantle shabbier than Ann Eliza's drawn about her narrow shoulders.
But Boom and its brickyards grew smokier and shabbier with every minute; until a great church with a clock, and a wooden bridge over the river, indicated the central quarters of the town.
But when the move was made--that move which carried us some mile and a half down the stream to be tied up to an altogether muddier and shabbier quay--then indeed the desolation of solitude became our lot.
The father remained the same—poorer, shabbier, and more dissolute-looking, but the same confirmed and irreclaimable drunkard.
Quotes with SHABBIER (3)
Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.
People who wrote novels about universities hardly ever got them right. Max had spent his short working life untenured, but still he'd managed to be a charming magnet wherever he taught, and Amy had surfeited on faculty gossip and professorial antics and the general behavior of academics, who were as a whole no more brilliant or Machiavellian than travel agents. They tended toward shabbier clothes and manners, and of course there was the occasional storied eccentric or truly o…
History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1975–2014).