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Shabby

Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.

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Dishonorable 84% connected

Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

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Dishonorable 84% connected

Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Worn 84% connected

of Wear

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Worn 84% connected

of Wear

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Iniquity 74% connected

Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of brib…

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Iniquity 74% connected

Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of brib…

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Manginess 74% connected

The condition or quality of being mangy.

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Manginess 74% connected

The condition or quality of being mangy.

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Abrasion noun · 78% connection

an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off

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Apology noun · 78% connection

a poor example; "it was an apology for a meal"; "a poor excuse for an automobile"

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Average adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, a…

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Beggarly adjective · 78% connection

In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.

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Birrus noun · 78% connection

A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over t…

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Corsage noun · 78% connection

a flower or small arrangement of flowers worn by a person as a personal ornament. Typically worn by women on special occasions (as, at…

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Distortion noun · 78% connection

the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

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Equation noun · 78% connection

A quantity to be applied in computing the mean place or other element of a celestial body; that is, any one of the several quantities…

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Excoriation noun · 78% connection

an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off

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Excuse noun · 78% connection

a poor example; "it was an apology for a meal"; "a poor excuse for an automobile"

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Footy adjective · 78% connection

Poor; mean.

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Hovel noun · 78% connection

A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.

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Jupiter noun · 78% connection

One of the planets, being the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It revo…

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Laceration noun · 78% connection

a torn ragged wound

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Mangle verb · 78% connection

To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in…

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Meagre adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wan…

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Mean adjective · 78% connection

Average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one…

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Medial adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a mean or average; mean; as, medial alligation.

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