Shabbily
['ʃæbili]
Definition
(adv.) in a mean and ungenerous manner; 'the two were haggling shabbily in the drawing-room'.
(adv.) so as to appear worn and threadbare or dilapidated; 'a shabbily dressed man'.
Edited by Craig--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In a shabby manner.
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Examples
- It was a mean, shabbily furnished room, with a bed in it. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Nettie Struther, with a startled exclamation, sat down and slipped a shabbily-clad arm behind her back. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Muzzle retired; and a pale, sharp-nosed, half-fed, shabbily-clad clerk, of middle age, entered the room. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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