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What is the adjective for shabbily?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb shab which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

shabby
  1. Torn or worn; unkempt.
  2. Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.
  3. Mean; paltry; despicable.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. ragged, tattered, frayed, worn, tatty, holey, raggedy, torn, faded, patched, old, worn out, moth-eaten, well worn, worn-out, falling apart at the seams, out at elbows, threadbare, scruffy, seedy, in tatters, ratty, in rags, decrepit, ripped, run-down, dilapidated, shoddy, shredded, rent, falling to pieces, in holes, in ribbons, worse for wear, in shreds, bedraggled, battered, tacky, tumbledown, crumbling, tatterdemalion, deteriorated, used, sorry, broken-down, distressed, grotty, warby, frazzled, split … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Here was a girl in a shabby dress, her hair braided in two untidy ropes, green eyes alive with the poetry.”
      “There was an aura of displacement about him, I felt, and it wasn't because of his ragged clothes or the shabby appearance.”
      “Miss Perrybright's School of Etiquette could be found in a shabby building at the far end of a rundown district of small shops.”
shabbed
  1. (obsolete) shabby
shabbier
  1. comparative form of shabby: more shabby
  2. Synonyms:
      3. worse, inferior, poorer, shoddier, direr, dodgier, grottier, hackier, junkier, lousier, poor, poxier, ropier, sadder, sorrier, tawdrier, trashier, of inferior quality, of poorer quality, not as good as, more abysmal, more appalling, more atrocious, more deficient, more deplorable, more diabolical, more direful, more dismal, more dreadful, more execrable, more flawed, more imperfect, more inadequate, more lamentable, more mediocre, more pathetic, more pitiful, more suboptimal, more subpar, more sub-par, more substandard, more terrible, more unacceptable, more unsatisfactory, more worthless, not so good, not as good, not as favorable, not as nice, badder … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Our hotel was in a suburb on the outskirts of the city, and was noticeably shabbier than the one we had in Newark.”
      “Old family homes have been destroyed to make way for shabbier public housing.”
      “The one that now stood there was smaller than his own palatial one, and shabbier.”
shabbiest
  1. superlative form of shabby: most shabby
  2. Synonyms:
      3. tattiest, holiest, raggediest, oldest, most ragged, most frayed, most worn, most faded, most worn out, most moth-eaten, most worn-out, most dilapidated, most tumbledown, most threadbare, scruffiest, seediest, meanest, mangiest, grungiest, dumpiest, miserablest, most tatterdemalion, rattiest, most neglected, tackiest, most timeworn, scrubbiest, sleaziest, most beat-up, most dog-eared, most bombed-out, most decrepit, most decayed, most old-fashioned, most unkempt, most yellowed, most outmoded, most démodé, scuzziest, most outworn, ancientest, slovenliest, untidiest, daggiest, sloppiest, frowziest, messiest, dirtiest, dowdiest … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Tall and gawky as he was in person, with tow-colored hair, and a scanty suit of shabbiest homespun, his appearance excited astonishment or ridicule wherever he went.”
      “Perhaps the thing's shabbiest when he puts his responsibilities on his wife.”
      “My address is Denenchofu — a pretty high-class place — but my house is in the shabbiest part of town.”
shabbing
  1. present participle of shab
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