shabbily

Example Sentences

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He was shocked by the poor state of the people who lived there, dressed shabbily and with heads shaven to combat lice, and demanded action from the institution.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2023

The musical is, like most Cinderella stories, about a shabbily treated young woman whose fortunes change when she meets a prince.

From New York Times • May 11, 2023

The authors are, crucially, also more open-minded about Paul’s then-wife, Linda, who was often treated shabbily, or at least superficially, by the press and Beatles fans.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2022

By age six, barefoot and shabbily clothed, she was working in the fields, subsisting on a single barley cake per day and sleeping with yaks.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2022

Then her eyes traveled up Count Olaf’s lean, shabbily dressed body, and she saw that he was pointing up with one scrawny hand.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket