shabbygenteel
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i adjective
trying to maintain dignity and self-respect despite shabbiness.
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| shabby-genteel | |
| —adj | |
| preserving or aspiring to the forms and manners of gentility despite appearing shabby | |
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Shabbygenteel
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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