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How to use shabbily in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word shabbily? Here are some examples.

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He claims the council is treating him shabbily, and all he needs is a stay of execution until he can have the sailing boat seaworthy.
We had also gone to the Centre with a begging bowl, but were shabbily treated.
Adam had used me and treated me shabbily for four years so it would do him good to get a little of his own medicine.
He was shabbily dressed, but not in tattered rags as many of the beggars had been.
There were 17 or 18 of them there, most of them aboriginal, some non-aboriginal, very shabbily clothed.
It is unfortunate that our American neighbours are treating us so shabbily again.
Some describe a shabbily dressed Viking, and some say that there's a cute witch who seems out of place.
In his later years Gaudí was content with very little, and dressed shabbily.
He was shabbily dressed and walked with something of a shuffle.
These are people's lives the government is playing with and, quite frankly, it is treating them shabbily.
It seems to me that whoever has been making these decisions has treated the staff, in some cases, rather shabbily.
In my view, both Parliament and the Commission have treated policy on mountain regions rather shabbily.
He was struck, however, not so much by the shabbily dressed and tousle-haired subjects of the photograph, but by the quality of the light in the background.
He is 30 minutes late and hardly cuts an imposing figure, dressed shabbily in an old pair of tracksuit bottoms and trainers, polo shirt and fleece.
A film director seeking instant identification of a character who has gone to seed would, as a matter of course, dress him shabbily and untidily and make sure that he was rather dirty.
Looking at the other diners, we seemed shabbily dressed.
The fact is that in making a very political decision about a life and death issue, the Liberals have treated our Canadian military and the loved ones of our Canadian military darned shabbily.
Even though America has treated Africa very shabbily on trade in the past, Mr Erwin hints it is easier doing business with America than with Europe or Japan.
The party has also faced claims that alleged child abusers in the IRA inside the same constituency were protected from the law and that their victims were treated shabbily by the republican movement.
But, there still remains a question concerning her work as a mechanic. Do men find it attractive for women to be shabbily dressed and dirty with grease all over the body?
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Examples from Classical Literature
To treat him shabbily in any way denotes no real appreciation of his presence.
He was shabbily dressed, and she did not even know he was the son of a dentist.
And there was big, handsome, Eddie Arledge, whose father had treated him shabbily.
You have asked the most shabbily dressed person in Elberthal to be your companion.
Next to this motive principle is his desire to make money dishonestly, trickily, meanly, and shabbily.
Nearly all were shabbily dressed, and of large and bony frame.
The song sparrows, by the way, treated me shabbily this season.
At that moment a strange man, shabbily dressed, entered the shop.
Von Wedel, though dressed so shabbily, was the chief spokesman.
Through the crowd of ungainly, shabbily dressed actors, Sibyl Vane moved like a creature from a finer world.
Naseby sat brooding in his study, that there was shown in upon him, on urgent business, a little hectic gentleman shabbily attired.
First of all the sight of the Villa looking shabbily cheerful in the sunshine was so perturbing that I very nearly went away from the gate.
She was shabbily dressed, with a trace of gentility in clothes and manner.
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