shabby-genteel

• Termo algo antiquado que descreve alguém ou algo que tenta manter uma aparência de nobreza ou respeitabilidade apesar da pobreza ou do estado deteriorado. Combina a ideia de pobreza ou desgaste com a de pretensão a uma classe social superior.

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.

   Pobre mas digno

   • 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.

   Sinônimosdignifiedgenteelrefinedrespectable

   Antônimosaffluentopulentprosperousrichwealthy