shabby
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The show stars Sir Gary as Jackson Lamb, the shabby and dischevelled yet competent head of Slough House whose trademark move is breaking wind.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
The whole affair was tawdry, shabby, and cheap—designed to pander to downwardly mobile young men who felt angry at the world.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Super Micro Computer spiked 69% in May—not quite as good as its rival, Dell, but not too shabby.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
I met O’Connor on the porch of the shabby two-story house where Francis Ford Coppola filmed his 1983 adaptation of “The Outsiders,” the Tulsa-based novel by S. E. Hinton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
I felt shabby for having saved a pencil through so many sharpenings.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
“From A to Z, from animal services to the zoo, the city is shabbier and more dysfunctional than it was three years ago,” said Cole, now a member of the Pasadena City Council.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
The meeting house grows progressively more dilapidated, and the costumes get shabbier, indicating that things aren’t going well for the Puritans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
However, the photo she said she took in person showed a much shabbier house, featuring uneven grass and cluttered with yard equipment where the bench was supposed to be.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2025
It's older and shabbier, covered in pine needles, small compared to the beach-front mansions others on the island have.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2022
The hallway with its eight doors seemed smaller to Lina than it had when she was a student, and shabbier.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
But it is a copout of the shabbiest sort to exploit this anxiety as a way of averting our gaze from the undiminished threat of North Korea.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2017
We’re the ones who highlight the shabbiest research.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2016
The pattern veered to the extreme Saturday afternoon, when the Nationals followed their self-described biggest win of the season with one of their shabbiest losses.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2013
Not the shabbiest of lists, we're sure you'll agree.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2013
Though the Nolans lived in the shabbiest house in Irish Town, the boys were the dressiest in the neighborhood.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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