What's the difference between rundown and shabby?

Rundown


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 11.54am BST Lizzy Davies has sent me this brief rundown from the briefing by the salvage engineers: • Franco Gabrielli, the head of Italy's civil protection agency, said that the parbuckling was proceeding "exactly according to predictions".
  • (2) Twenty people were shot dead last year in the city's rundown housing estates, where youth unemployment is as high as 40%.
  • (3) "We inherited a crumbling infrastructure, starved of funding; Victorian schools with rundown gyms, and thousands of playing fields sold off," Sutcliffe said.
  • (4) However, Freeman bounced back into the presenter's chair in 1964, and continued to present the weekly rundown of the singles chart until 1972.
  • (5) Cohen has been filming scenes in the Essex port town of Tilbury, which has been transformed into a rundown "Grimsby", complete with householders urinating out of their windows and children being offered beer.
  • (6) At least two people – a woman, identified by police as Abaaoud’s cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen, who apparently blew herself up by detonating an explosive vest, and a man hit by multiple gunshots and a grenade – were known to have died in the seven-hour assault on the rundown apartment block .
  • (7) "The building was so rundown they decided to break it down altogether to rebuild it," Archana's mother explains.
  • (8) The price of the specially formulated milk he requires has quadrupled since last year, so his parents have had to rent out their own home and move into a much smaller, rundown one just to feed their child.
  • (9) All too unwittingly but effectively and increasingly, developed world citizens contribute to the rundown of the planet's natural resources that sustain everyone's welfare.
  • (10) Instead, Syed explained, the area was overcrowded and rundown.
  • (11) Comic-book epics Finally, no Week in Geek preview would be complete without a rundown of the coming year’s superhero stylings.
  • (12) On a modest street in a rundown area, Aziz Kara, a 64-year-old Turk, became embroiled in a ferocious argument with his neighbours.
  • (13) After the rundown, reversal potentials of ASP-induced currents were the same whether recorded with or without the intracellular support system and the Asp induced currents could be blocked by the specific NMDA channel blocker ketamine.
  • (14) Tyson Fury has no fear of retribution – he will say and do as he pleases | Kevin Mitchell Read more Every Saturday night, crowds of men from our rundown housing estate would get tanked up and go to watch those from an even lower pecking order than themselves inflict pain and humiliation on each other, while the spectators egged them on.
  • (15) The three of us agreed it was quiet, non-threatening, not particularly untidy, just a bit rundown – and obviously a very low-income area.
  • (16) Adaptive rundown of e.p.s.p.s during sound stimulation, i.e.
  • (17) If you’re still searching for apps, Samuel Gibbs has a good rundown of everything that’s left , including Snapchat and Facebook’s actual messenger app.
  • (18) In experiments where evoked acetylcholine release was maintained at physiologically relevant levels, atropine had no effect on the quantal content of EPPs evoked at low frequency or on the extent of rundown in trains of EPPs evoked at high frequency.
  • (19) But the town also has a number of mobile home parks at the edges, some more rundown than others.
  • (20) The rundown curve was composed of an initial stable period followed by a rather rapid decline.

Shabby


Definition:

  • (n.) Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.
  • (n.) Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.
  • (n.) Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
  • (2) Given what is now known about the way the case was made for launching an arguably illegal war – this country's biggest foreign policy debacle since Suez – Heywood's refusal to release the conversations smacks of a shabby cover-up at worst, or foot-dragging in a moderately more charitable interpretation.
  • (3) It is not something you can deal with tactically and this is a tactic, this is a stunt, it is simply designed to distract the house and the public and the people from the shabby tactics of the Labor party.
  • (4) Alistair Darling 's self-serving memoir only reminds us of his own shabby role when he, more than any other, had the power to do it.
  • (5) Photographs from inside the flat showed a cramped and shabby home whose contents had been turned over by investigators.
  • (6) To be fair, that was probably a much better use of Miliband's time, given Labour's shabby showing in the opinion polls.
  • (7) "I only had two hours sleep after we finished partying before going on breakfast TV this morning," she says, despite the fact she is filling this tiny room, a shabby corner of the new BBC building in central London, with her warp-scale energy.
  • (8) But here inBritain – crammed into a shabby and overcrowded carriage on your way (thank God) out of your stressful City job – is there any joy to the journey?
  • (9) The UK chain generates two thirds of group profits and had been milked to bankroll international expansion, leading to shabby stores and deteriorating customer service.
  • (10) So what if the rooms are tiny, shabby and atmosphere-free?
  • (11) Appraising his shabby suit, the jeweller suggests he pick up something cheaper from the local bazaar.
  • (12) San Diego made some gesture towards addressing their shabby offensive line play by drafting offensive tackle DJ Fluker in the first round, but they needed to do more.
  • (13) In her day this was a gritty neighbourhood and it hasn’t changed much, with a shabby market by the metro station and blocks of peeling townhouses; this is the real, old Paris, the world she sang about, with its desperate cast of thieves and tramps and lovers.
  • (14) He told MPs he personally objected to having to pay a television licence fee of £145.50, as he attacked the coverage of the jubilee celebrations as "scandalous, shabby and rather unprofessional".
  • (15) The judge, perched in front of a shabby Russian flag, refused to look at the defence.
  • (16) Around 40 people crammed into the shabby courtroom, as dozens of journalists were left stranded outside, blocked from entering by burly police.
  • (17) His B of the Bang sculpture in Manchester was dismantled after it started shedding metal, and his Blue Carpet in Newcastle was late and over budget and in the space of a few years became grey and shabby .
  • (18) Malcolm Turnbull has launched a forceful defence of his investments in funds registered in the Cayman Islands , while condemning Labor for mounting a “shabby smear campaign” about his personal wealth, based on “the politics of envy”.
  • (19) When the PM next berates Jeremy Corbyn over a shabby suit, the Labour leader will be able to reply that, unlike Cameron, he isn’t receiving a subsidy for it from the party.
  • (20) The Senate was less than impressed with that shabby process and the Senate voted last night.” The government announced in the 2015 budget that it would give the Australian tax office greater powers to stop global companies using “artificial or contrived arrangements” to avoid tax obligations – but the Senate passed the legislation only after making an amendment relating to tax transparency.