shabby-genteel

• Abwertender Begriff für jemanden oder etwas, das trotz Armut oder Abnutzung den Anschein von Vornehmheit oder Respektabilität zu wahren sucht.

An old-fashioned term describing someone or something that tries to maintain an appearance of gentility or respectability despite being shabby or impoverished.

1. Trying to maintain dignity despite povertyC2formalbritish

   Describing someone who is poor or shabby but still tries to appear respectable and dignified.

   Vornehm abgerissen

   • The old professor lived in a shabby-genteel apartment, always wearing a patched but clean suit.
   • She had a shabby-genteel air about her, as if she was once wealthy but had fallen on hard times.
   • The shabby-genteel neighborhood had faded Victorian houses with peeling paint but neatly trimmed hedges.

   Synonymedignifiedgenteelrefinedrespectable

   Antonymeaffluentopulentprosperousrichwealthy