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shabbily

[ UK /ʃˈæbɪli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. so as to appear worn and threadbare or dilapidated
    a shabbily dressed man
  2. 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.
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