How To Use Shabbily In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Great entertainers are treated shabbily, while callow, shallow twerps land their own series after half a dozen gigs.
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Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
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P . C. Brown regarded the forlorn figure, shabbily dressed. The man seemed miserable, homeless perhaps?
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He was shabbily dressed and walked with something of a shuffle.
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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.
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He was shabbily dressed, the flesh on his bones wasted by whatever disease afflicted him.
BETTER THAN THIS
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Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
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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.
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Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
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Shabbily forlorn were that man's habiliments -- turned and re-turned, patched, darned, weather - stained, grease-stained -- but still retaining that kind of mouldy, grandiose, bastard gentility, which implies that the wearer has known better days; and, in the downward progress of fortunes when they once fall, may probably know still worse.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 10
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He was shabbily dressed in a suit of greenish-black and wore what we used to call a jerry hat with a high crown.
Dubliners
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He was shabbily dressed, but not in tattered rags as many of the beggars had been.
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Haggard and pale, shabbily or raggedly dressed, their and down at heel, they slouched past.
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the two were haggling shabbily in the drawing-room
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They want shabbily compensated, compulsory labor as a means of delaying a reckoning for imperial botchery.
Stop Me Before I Vote Again
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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.
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Great entertainers are treated shabbily, while callow, shallow twerps land their own series after half a dozen gigs.
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The others were both in there, waiting; as shabbily-dressed and underfed as the first man, and looking edgy.
NIGHT SISTERS
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a shabbily dressed man
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For those unfamiliar with the design of the cursed building I inhabit, I live in the (rather shabbily) converted attic.
