[General] two sentences with shabby

[Silverobama]

Hi.

I wonder if these two are natural.

1) The old house has grown shabby with age. (I went to my friend's father's house where I went there ten years ago. The house is now broken.)
2) You look rather shabby in those clothes. (My aunt said this to me and bought me some new ones.

 

[GoesStation]

They're both possible, but a shabby house isn't broken.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Right. We don't say houses are broken. Depending on what we mean, we might call them:

- in disrepair
- falling down
- fallen down
- torn down
- demolished
- gone

 

[Tarheel]

Hi.

I wonder if these two are natural.

1) The old house has grown shabby with age. (I went to my friend's father's house for the first time in ten years. The house is now broken.)
2) You look rather shabby in those clothes. (My aunt said this to me and bought me some new ones.

I might say:

The house is rundown.

Or:

The house is in disrepair.

 

[GoesStation]

"Dilapidated" is a nice word for a run-down house.

 

[Tarheel]

You look rather shabby in those clothes. (My aunt said this to me and bought me some new ones).

That's the kind of aunt to have.

 

[Yankee]

That's the kind of aunt to have.

But not the kind of spouse.