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Sentence count:146+10Posted:2017-02-09Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: raggedseedyshoddytatteredwornAntonym: decentSimilar words: crabbylobbyhobbyabbotrabbirabbitabbesshabitMeaning: ['ʃæbɪ]  adj. 1. showing signs of wear and tear 2. mean and unworthy and despicable. 
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31. Emily sighed as she stood in the shabby kitchen.
32. By then, of course, it was totally shabby.
33. That dreadful, badly cut shabby old coat and skirt!
34. Shabby men were walking about, in ones and twos.
35. Solid provincial comfort, a little shabby now, but solid.
36. Bognor today is a shabby, down-at-heel place.
37. John was standing in the doorway in his shabby blue suit.
38. He was wearing the unobtrusive shabby clothes with soft shoes that would allow him to plod round the streets without being noticed.
39. He says that they could have turned the company around. he feels they've been treated in a shabby way.
40. Rather than cut shabby deals[http://sentencedict.com], he should call a general election.
41. They were not the shabby workmen, but were dressed in what looked like blue and white satin.
42. The gilding was flaking off a clumsy clasp and some stitches had broken on the handle, leaving it frayed and shabby.
43. Reminding himself that there was nothing to fear he set off, past the loose boxes with their heaps of shabby treasure.
44. He was stuffing drawing and painting materials into a shabby old bag.
45. It was an ugly room with tasteless decorations and shabby furniture.
46. He was unshaven and wearing a shabby towelling bathrobe with threads hanging off it.
47. After this, Tate Britain at Millbank feels cramped, parsimonious and a bit shabby.
48. Theda felt shabby by contrast, and was hit by a passing pang of envy.
49. She wore shabby black clothes, with holes in the elbows of her jacket.
50. He wore shabby clothes and shoes and a black silk scarf, always, outdoors and in.
51. Passing through a tiny village called Babylon(sentencedict.com), the buildings are shabby and unkempt.
52. The characters should be in a shabby flat, seated at a refectory table, facing the audience.
53. He reappeared, grasping the unfortunate by the scruff of his shabby collar.
54. It was a shabby finale for a grand and loyal Palace servant.
55. Therese was huddled in nearly every garment she possessed, slacks, jumpers, her shabby grey coat and the multicoloured shawl.
56. Mrs Kulass put on a ratty fur coat, a shabby felt hat, and put her hands inside an old muff.
57. At 29 Howard's Avenue the builder's skip was still outside and the rusty scaffolding blinded its shabby windows.
58. I watched him as he bounded up a flight of narrow concrete steps and banged his fists on a shabby door.
59. Home was in Peckham, in the shabby house whose light spilled each evening out on to the street.
60. The villages and towns they passed through were shabby where buildings had long since been left to decay.
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