shabby-genteel

• Terme vieilli décrivant une personne ou une chose qui s'efforce de conserver une apparence de dignité ou de respectabilité malgré un état usé ou pauvre, souvent avec une prétention au raffinement.

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.

   pauvre mais digne

   • 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.

   Synonymesdignifiedgenteelrefinedrespectable

   Antonymesaffluentopulentprosperousrichwealthy