| Young birds resemble adults in winter plumage, but looks shabbier, and have grey spots on their white wing patches. |
| Onstage, though, Javelin is a shabbier proposition, though not unwelcomely so. |
| The Khri, was a native, and his robes could not well have been dirtier or shabbier. |
| The buildings got shabbier and shabbier and the colour drained away from everything. |
| His characters are often marginal to the point of near nonexistence, Beckett's clochards with backstories, Conrad's adventurers in a shabbier key. |
| As already stated, Chidambaram is a, well, shabbier town than Chennai or Trichy or Madurai. |
