Translation for 'shabby' from English to Polish

shabby

wytarty {adj}

obskurny {adj}

zniszczony {adj}

sfatygowany {adj}

podniszczony {adj}

wyświechtany {adj} [pot.]

• In Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray", the characters Sibyl and James Vane live at a "shabby lodgings" on Euston Road.
• In 1914, 26-year-old Sitwell moved to a small, shabby flat in Pembridge Mansions, Bayswater, which she shared with Helen Rootham (1875–1938), her governess since 1903.
• The deliberate use of worn and shabby materials in interior design or fashion. The effect of limewashing timber-framed buildings has been described as "shabby chic".
• Two shabby hustlers who usually sell stolen goods.
• A shabby, "Raines law hotel"-type New York City saloon and rooming house serves as the 1912 setting of the classic play "The Iceman Cometh", by Eugene O'Neill.

• Act I: A shabby but pretentious sitting-room in Colonel O'Fipp's house.
• That is my tiny room, although simple and shabby.
• A mostly underground shopping mall called "Globus" was built under the square to replace the old and shabby giant underpass formerly dubbed by Kyivans as "Truba" (the Tube).
• Antique pieces such as pie safes and jelly cupboards are popular in shabby chic décor.
• In Act Two the foyer is shabby, diminished and lit by one dim bulb. All is in decay. The sign says "Cry Palace".

• Madhubala's biographer Mohan Deep called "Imtihaan" "a shabby film".
• Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" disliked Allen's writing but credited Winslet for filling her "shabby character with feverish life".
• In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in custom slipcovering driven by the interior design industry and the popularity of the very casual shabby chic design style.
• Pie safes are considered to be collectable antiques and are commonly reproduced. They are popular pieces in the shabby chic interior design style.
• That it has taken Foster's to help realise my dream of joining the information superhighway is a damning indictment of the established broadcasters whose shabby treatment of me on Sept 10th 2001 was frankly shabby.

• In 1992 the region of 10 million people had fewer than 20 Baptist churches, and those were shabby and needing repair.
• No longer in the Police Force, he died (possibly of alcoholic poisoning) in a shabby rooming house in Fitzroy, Victoria on 21 December 1947.
• A 2000 travel guide described Golden Grove as "rather shabby", adding that tourists "won't want to stop here".