shabby

How To Use shabby In A Sentence

• His clothes were old and shabby.
• The men are dressed in shabby, quilted jackets; they are bareheaded and barefoot.
• Why does he think her shabby treatment of you is acceptable?
• Poor bantam building block, what had you ever done since the beginning of time and space to deserve such shabby treatment?
• Perhaps something dirty, something shabby. Times, Sunday Times
• If that is her calculation, it is a shabby one. Times, Sunday Times
• The stage was marvellously decorated to look like a shabby pub with its bar stools, spongy seats, Guinness mirrors and jukebox.
• There was a panic in Dhurrumtolla; a "ticca-gharry" -- the shabby oblong box on wheels, dignified in municipal regulations as a hackney carriage -- was running away. Hilda A Story of Calcutta
• If Huck had felt ‘ornery’ and insignificant in the face of Providence Jim is capable of the same emotion when he recalls his shabby treatment of Elizabeth.
• From these places emerged the "beatniks", typically dressed in shabby clothes, sporting a beard and wearing sunglasses at all hours.