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4. dilapidated, deteriorated, battered, in disrepair, run-down, broken-down, tumble-down, ramshackle, seedy, SI. crummy, SI. beat-up; squalid, wretched, miserable, abject, slummy, slum-like.
5. mean, stingy, cheap, mingy, tight, tight-fisted, closefisted, miserly, niggardly, niggard, pinchpenny, penny-pinching, grudging, ungenerous, illiberal, beggarly, penurious, parsimonious.
6. base, base-spirited, low, vile, mean-spirited; contemptible, beneath contempt, worthy of contempt, despicable, detestable, odious, opprobrious, infamous, ignominious, sordid, heinous, atrocious, flagitious, abominable, degenerate, depraved, scurvy; ignoble, inglorious, discreditable, disreputable, dishonorable, rascally, villainous; coarse, vulgar, crude, uncouth, ungentlemanly, unhandsome, unbecoming.
7. inferior, mediocre, secondary, second-best, second-rate, third-rate, fourth-rate, substandard, below standard, subpar, below par; inadequate, insufficient, deficient, imperfect; incompetent, unskillful, maladroit; not to be compared or mistaken, not comparable, Inf. not a patch on it, Inf. out of the picture or running, Inf. not in the same league.

shackle, n. 1. fetter, chain, manacle, handcuff, cuff, gyve, bilboes, trammel; hobble, hamper, restraint.
2. shackles a. fetters, chains, irons, bonds, pinions, gyves, trammels; manacles, handcuffs, cuffs, SI. bracelets, Brit. SI. darbies, b. impediment, hindrance, check, deterrent; obstacle, obstruction, bar, barrier, barricade; stop, block.
-v. 3. fetter, manacle, handcuff, SI. slap the cuffs or bracelets on [s.o.], put in irons; chain, enchain, tether, gyve; hobble, truss, bind, tie up, tie hand and foot, Inf. hogtie; trammel, entrammel, pinion.
4. restrict, restrain, rein, bridle, constrain; frustrate, thwart, impede, hinder, handicap; bar, obstruct, block, blockade, barricade, stand in the way; stop, stay, halt.

shade, n. 1. darkness, duskiness, dusk, dimness, lightlessness; shadiness, shadowiness; cloudiness, murkiness, murk; gloom, gloominess, somberness, tenebrousness; obscurity, indistinctness, nebulousness, faintness, vagueness.
2. apparition, specter, spirit, soul, vision, phantom, phantasm, eidolon, materialization; ghost, (in Irish folklore) banshee, (in Roman religion) manes, (in Roman religion) lemures or larvae, Inf. spook.
3. shadow. See - shadow (def. 1).
4. degree, small or slight degree, nuance; hair, hair's- breadth, fraction, fraction of an inch, skin of one's teeth.
5. hint, suggestion, suspicion, intimation, soup^on, trace, tinge; touch, speck, sprinkling, dash; little bit, modicum, iota, grain, scintilla, atom.
6. blind, Venetian blind, window shade; sunshade, parasol, umbrella; cover, covering, canopy, awning, shelter; protection, shield, safeguard.
7. shades Slang, sunglasses, dark or colored
glasses or lenses, Inf. sunspecs.
8. cast or

put someone into the shade surpass, ex ceed, excel, transcend, trump, overcome, better, Inf go one better; cap, top, overtop; beat, best, worst; overshadow, eclipse, put to shame, Inf show [s.o.] up; outstrip, outdo, outvie, outrival, outclass, outperform, outplay, Inf run rings or circles around.
-v. 9. darken, blacken, black, opaque, adumbrate; eclipse, occult, black out, blot out.