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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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121. Maria has just inherited an old and shabby steam locomotive!
122. She is none the less beautiful for her shabby clothing.
123. I remember the shabby little clapboard house we all grew up in. But it had an enviable nice little plot with a kitchen garden bordered by lilac bushes.
124. What a shame such a shapely sash should such shabby stitches show.
125. They're ostentatiously shabby, his collars never clean and his tie's never tied properly.
126. Even the parking lot of a three-star hotel we stayed in was full of fancy cars and that made my Jeep Compass look shabby.
127. The old man is in shabby clothes all the year round.
128. What a shame such shapely sash should such shabby stitches show?
129. A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
130. At first she did not recognise the shabby, baggy figure.
131. So the horse, rather shabby, stood in an arrested prance in the boy's bedroom.
132. However, if she had seen her own dad pushing the heavy dung-cart in the shabby clothes as they were , how would that have made her feel?
133. There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
134. In such a shabby place Yuan Xian didn't think it was hard. He could play music in heartsease without revealing any feeling of fidget.
135. The firm's modest space, a step up from the garage where Erskine first hashed out the idea, seems more dot-com shabby than financial-services chic.
136. From these places emerged the "beatniks", typically dressed in shabby clothes, sporting a beard and wearing sunglasses at all hours.
137. Grant was of humble origin, shabby in dress, rough in speech and manners.
138. A special model contest was held in the Korogocho slum in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, where female residents displayed their best attire on shabby catwalk, AFP reported. Sentencedict.com
139. The place is a bit strange in the sense that it's a tourist trap but not really a resort — the bungalows are quite dull and a little shabby and the food so-so.
140. This is where Lionel Logue comes in – a bullish Australian with bohemian manners and shabby premises on Harley Street.
141. He looked so shabby, in an old hat and a long overcoat.
142. He saw the Justice , a shabby , collarless, graying man in spectacles, beckoning him.
143. The old, rather shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic(John Galsworthy.
144. On his arrest, he had been careful to take with him a threadbare cap and a shabby sheepskin coat that he had saved from his years in exile.
145. Asa and Elvira run a shabby religions mission in Kansas City.
146. One man drove his car tardily through the congested traffic flow, when he stopped at a red light and heard a knock by a shabby boy on the window to aks if he would like to buy flowers.
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