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UK
/ʃˈæbɪli/
]
ADVERB
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so as to appear worn and threadbare or dilapidated
a shabbily dressed man -
in a mean and ungenerous manner
the two were haggling shabbily in the drawing-room
How To Use shabbily In A Sentence
- Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
- For those unfamiliar with the design of the cursed building I inhabit, I live in the (rather shabbily) converted attic.
- a shabbily dressed man
- The others were both in there, waiting; as shabbily-dressed and underfed as the first man, and looking edgy. NIGHT SISTERS
- Great entertainers are treated shabbily, while callow, shallow twerps land their own series after half a dozen gigs.
- He claims the council is treating him shabbily, and all he needs is a stay of execution until he can have the sailing boat seaworthy.
- They want shabbily compensated, compulsory labor as a means of delaying a reckoning for imperial botchery. Stop Me Before I Vote Again
- the two were haggling shabbily in the drawing-room
- Haggard and pale, shabbily or raggedly dressed, their and down at heel, they slouched past.
- He was shabbily dressed, but not in tattered rags as many of the beggars had been.