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In a way that is unsatisfactory or inadequate
“For such shabby workmanship as this, there is no excuse, when it may be so easily avoided.”
Without expending much money
Adverb for ragged or tattered, especially of clothes
“Here was a girl in a shabby dress, her hair braided in two untidy ropes, green eyes alive with the poetry.”
Adverb for scruffy or grubby in appearance
“There was an aura of displacement about him, I felt, and it wasn't because of his ragged clothes or the shabby appearance.”
Adverb for in poor condition through long use or lack of care
“Miss Perrybright's School of Etiquette could be found in a shabby building at the far end of a rundown district of small shops.”
Adverb for of low social rank or status
“Rex Mottram, Julia Flyte's crude lover in Brideshead, is a newly rich and self-invented man from a shabby background, vulgar and ostentatious in his hospitality, suspected of crime and violence, and full of status anxiety.”
Adverb for behaving in a mean or unfair way
“It was a shabby way to treat a sister and a shabbier way to treat a brother.”
Adverb for dirty or unclean, especially disgustingly so
Adverb for significantly below an amount or level that is adequate
Adverb for unimportant or insignificant in nature
Adverb for done or performed without method or care
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