| Why don't people do something about the shabbiness that surrounds us? |
| I was so stunned by the shabbiness of their arguments that it made me wonder how powerful this multitrillion-dollar industry is. |
| It was what he said when someone asked a question about the shabbiness of Bedouin villages in the Negev. |
| But it has an idle abundance and wantonness, a romantic shabbiness and dishevelment. |
| The shabbiness of the legislature must answer for it, if criminals remain at large. |
| There are holes in the material and it is roughly stitched together, its shabbiness evoking the deprivations of post-war Europe. |
