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shabbily

ADVERB
cheaply
Synonyms
STRONGEST
inexpensively poorly reasonably
WEAK
advantageously at a bargain price at a discount at a reduced price cheap dirt-cheap discounted moderately on sale shoddily
ADVERB
poorly
Synonyms
STRONGEST
badly crudely inadequately insufficiently
WEAK
defectively incompetently inexpertly inferiorly meanly unsuccessfully
Antonyms
WEAK
satisfactorily well

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Shabbily dressed in clothes that look inadequate for the fast-approaching night, he greets the aid workers, inaugurating an amusingly absurd, confusing conversation.

From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022

Shabbily as Ben Smart had used him, he could not make up his mind to betray him.

From Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks by Optic, Oliver

Shabbily dressed in a soiled madras shirt and shoddy trousers, he wore neither tie nor collar: his unkempt chin hung in folds upon his chest.

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph

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