What's the difference between scabbiness and shabbiness?
Scabbiness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being scabby.
Example Sentences:
(1) HM-8 from a scabby wheat kernel sample from England produced a novel toxin when grown in culture on rice.
(2) An experiment, involving 1200 broiler chickens, was conducted to evaluate the effects of stocking density (providing either 840, 720, 585, or 454 cm2 of floor space per bird) on the incidence of scabby hip syndrome at slaughter (42 days).
(3) The problems of combat measures against contagious ecthyma (scabby mouth) of sheep and the human Orf-virus infections are discussed.
(4) Scabby lesions of 40 (77%) out of a total of 52 cases were positive for the virions, while sera of all infected animals which reacted positively for pox viral antibodies (LSD) was significantly higher (P less than 0.001) in comparison to those of healthy-appearing animals.
(5) Turner gets older and even crankier; his paintings become more proto-impressionistic; his relationships with various women and incidental men rumble on; poor old Hannah Danby gets increasingly marginalised and scabby (she suffered from a disfiguring skin disease).
(6) Gentle scratching twice a week resulted in skin lesions that could not be distinguished from clinical scabby hips at slaughter.
(7) Clipping of the claws at day 25 could almost completely prevent scabby hips at day 45 when the birds were slaughtered.
(8) The investigation also showed that there existed close relationship between the level of T-2 toxin contamination and the epidemic of wheat scabby.
(9) Clinical signs exhibited were listlessness, scabby lesions on skin near the foot pads, mild alopecia and a reduction in body-weight gain.
(10) These results demonstrate that a cell culture produced scabby mouth vaccine is feasible.
(11) A study was made of deoxynivalenol (DON) incidences and levels in 1982 hard red winter (HRW) wheat grown in areas of Nebraska and Kansas known to have scabby wheat.
(12) Decrease in stocking density and an increase in feeding space resulted in a reduction of skin lesions at day 25 and resultant scabby hips after slaughter.
(13) The aetiology of scabby hips was studied in broilers by scratching the skin with chicken claws, clipping the birds' claws and varying the effects of stocking density and food trough allocation.
(14) Broilers from commercial flocks experiencing a 10-60% incidence of scabby-hip lesions at processing were examined, and selected skin lesions were cultured.
(15) Affected goats had a scabby or ulcerated prepuce, with a distorted or pinhole preputial orifice.
(16) She grew up a scabby-kneed mill-worker’s daughter in the foothills of the Appalachians, wearing dresses that her mother made from the free lengths of cotton that lined flour and feed sacks.
(17) Orf virus, derived from contagious pustular dermatitis (scabby mouth) lesions in sheep, was adapted to cell culture and subsequently evaluated as a potential vaccine for sheep.
(18) Corn cultures (five isolates each of Fusarium graminearum Group 1 from wheat crowns, Group 2 from scabby wheat grains and from ear rot of corn and five isolates of F. crookwellense) were screened for their ability to produce deoxynivalenol (DON), nivalenol (NIV), fusarenon-x (FUS-X) and zearalenone (ZEA).
(19) No positive correlation was found between feather condition and the severity of scabby hips at slaughter at day 45.
(20) The incidence of scabby hip syndrome was higher at the higher stocking density.
Shabbiness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being sghabby.
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.