shabbily

How To Use shabbily In A Sentence

• The blocks had been shabbily constructed by Russian slave laborers; heavy rains overwhelmed their thin beaverboard roofing, turning some rooms into “miniature lakes.” Masters of the Air
• Adam had used me and treated me shabbily for four years so it would do him good to get a little of his own medicine.
• Reaching Blois and utterly rejecting his mother's attempts to excuse herself and console him, he drags out a miserable time in continual penance and self-neglect, till at last, availing himself of (and rather shabbily if piously tricking) a Saracen page, [71] he succeeds in getting off incognito to the vague "Ardennes," where his sadly ended adventure had begun. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
• Three shabbily dressed and under - nourished children lived in a Hampshire house of astonishing squalor as their parents frittered their money away on drink, a court heard.
• Great entertainers are treated shabbily, while callow, shallow twerps land their own series after half a dozen gigs.
• Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
• P . C. Brown regarded the forlorn figure, shabbily dressed. The man seemed miserable, homeless perhaps?
• He was shabbily dressed and walked with something of a shuffle.
• He is 30 minutes late and hardly cuts an imposing figure, dressed shabbily in an old pair of tracksuit bottoms and trainers, polo shirt and fleece.
• He was shabbily dressed, the flesh on his bones wasted by whatever disease afflicted him. BETTER THAN THIS