Word of the day: Shabby

Shabby:  gasto, roto, surrado, esfarrapado,  maltrapilho,  miserável, vil, ordinário

Synonyms: beat-up, bombed-out, dilapidated, dog-eared, down-at-the-heels, dumpy, grungy, mangy, mean, miserable, moth-eaten, neglected, ratty, run-down, scrubby

“Maneuvering his car through a shabby city-owned trailer park on a recent rainy morning…” (www.latimes.com / April 18, 2012)

Word of the day: Tacky

Tacky:  grudento, pegajoso,  relaxado, maltrapilho, esfarrapado, desmazelado, cafona, brega

Synonyms : sticky, cheesy, dowdy, inelegant, styleless, tasteless, ticky-tacky , trashy, unfashionable, adherent, adhesive, clingy, gluey, glutinous, gummy, tacky, tenacious, viscid

“ If the dough still feels tacky, repeat once more, this time covering the table and the dough each with 2 tablespoons of flour.”(www.latimes.com / Nov 3, 2011)

“I left a fingerprint in the tacky paint.”(www. dictionary.cambridge.org)