shabbily

Example Sentences

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“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

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

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

“These individuals appear to have been treated shabbily by the Navy, and the Court brushes all that aside.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2022

Snaking all the way ’round the side of the palace and then back again was a long line of sad-faced, shabbily dressed people.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood