shabbily
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- adverb
- /ˈʃæbɪli/
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desaliñado
- Then the bus stopped, and a black guy—thirtyish, slightly overweight, shabbily but not too shabbily dressed—stepped aboard, and I saw him glance at the empty seat beside me.
- shabbily dressed
Examples
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The second man was shabbily dressed, carried three or four days of whiskers, and had bloodshot eyes.
Fiction book (1990) -
The room was minimally and shabbily furnished and smelled of insecticide and stale tobacco smoke.
Fiction book (1997) -
A man of about fifty, he is dressed shabbily in a wrinkled black suit and a black shirt.
Fiction book (1992) -
On New Year's Day, an old man, shabbily dressed, entered and hobbled up to the counter.
Fiction book (2000) -
They were so poor, they barely had enough to eat, never traveled, dressed shabbily, and worked non-stop.
Fiction book (1996) -
The community, led by members of the Chatham Avalon Community Council (CAPCC), picketed the construction site because of a lack of African American construction workers present on the site and later because the building was so shabbily built that it needed major repairs that the Chicago Public Library refused to do.
Blog text (11) -
The wall is ugly enough on the U.S. side, but on the Mexican side, it's impossible to see it as anything but a physical expression of contempt—shabbily thrown together, made of long strips of corrugated metal that look salvaged from a junkyard.
Academic text (2011) -
The old man walked shabbily down the street, his clothes tattered and worn.
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She realized her neighbors were living shabbily, their homes filled with broken furniture and peeling paint.
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They went to the party dressed shabbily, in clothes that had seen better days and shoes with holes.
Synonyms
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In a careless way that uses cheap materials or little effort
In a way that makes something look old and worn
In a shabby, cheap way that looks old
In a weak, broken way because it is old and not cared for
In a dirty, shabby way that looks old and untidy
In a dirty, dull way that makes things look old and not fresh
In a messy, untidy way, especially about clothes or hair
In a very dirty and morally bad way
Antonyms
How Shabby
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word shabbily comes from shabby, which originally meant 'ragged' or 'worn', like a coat in 'rags'. So to be dressed shabbily is to look worn out or in poor condition.