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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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61. Everything in it was old and shabby; little had been chosen by Edward himself.
62. Steyne Street was a narrow street in a shabby but respectable part of town.
63. The sitting room had shabby chintz furniture, and faded curtains in the long window alcove.
64. Elsewhere, the condition of many of the great monuments ranges from shabby to ruinous.
65. There was no sound from below and, carefully, Craig opened a door and stared out into the shabby passageway.
66. Poor bantam building block, what had you ever done since the beginning of time and space to deserve such shabby treatment?
67. The drabness of his surroundings, his own shabby clothes were explained and transformed by these books.
68. It is a shabby justification for bad behaviour to say that society or bad housing or education is responsible.
68. Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress every day!
69. They packed into the shabby state-run hotels or took rooms at the small guest-houses.
70. Politically, it was essential last summer to distance the government from what had clearly been a shabby episode.
71. They have dark skin, long noses and wear shabby farmers' smocks.
72. Their financial status seems to have varied at different times in her life from the reasonably comfortable to the distinctly shabby genteel.
73. He was a stock irritant, an ugly man in a shabby dressing gown over a stained shirt.
74. And weren't defectors like displaced persons, small and shabby with cardboard suitcases.
75. If you can find a gnarled peasant woman making shabby artefacts from twigs, point your readers in her direction.
76. This script began with Aunt Lilian's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades.
77. She sat in the dishevelled shabby glamour of her bedroom and stared out of the window for hours at a time.
78. The old and shabby rooms, flower-filled and soft with candlelight, would ring with voices and laughter.
79. These may seem long periods but the work was so well done that the paintwork was never shabby.
80. Tim noticed that they looked shabby, their clothes were worn at the edges[sentencedict.com], the collars dull and frayed.
81. It was a shabby army-surplus shoulder-bag which some one had painstakingly embroidered with purple stars.
82. He is dressed in a shabby navy blue suit and a soiled white shirt; he carries a raincoat.
83. A small neat iron bed with a shabby well-washed coverlet had one lumpy pillow and sheets which were hard to the touch.
84. But they circulate among the small rooms as gingerly as tourists, reluctant to touch the somewhat shabby furnishings.
85. He was wearing a shabby green uniform and a crumpled forage cap, and he carried an automatic rifle.
86. Old opinions were shed, stuffy woolly shabby old liberal vests and comforters were left piled on the shore.
87. Much to the consternation of the operators, Humphrey's shabby figure would appear and then disappear into high-speed machinery.
88. At the top of the Holiday Inn tower in Des Moines, a shabby room has been brightened with balloons.
89. The shiny black Porsche purred through the slightly shabby suburb.
90. He seemed to have been stuck in this shabby, overheated room for days.
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