What is "shabbily"

Usage examples of "shabbily".

A shabbily dressed man of gray hair and bushy mustache sat on the edge of the sofa, his elbows resting on his thighs, turning his hat in his hands, obviously very ill at ease.

Natayos was a shabbily dressed Dacite, and he was reeling with exhaustion as he staggered into the room.

Although he and Rashed had a clear agreement that any disappearances or dead bodies found would be shabbily investigated, this was the first time Rashed had spoken so openly about shedding blood.

She stopped, because a shabbily dressed man had tapped Moist on the shoulder.

What a contrast these vainglorious men were to the people of the land they conquered who barely had enough to fill their stomachs, shabbily dressed and exhausted.

Within the space of minutes, she glimpsed beggars, peasant labourers, tradesmen and shopkeepers, market women and grisettes, students, liveried servants and footmen, assorted soberly clad bourgeois, sailors, uniformed gendarmes, Royal Guardsmen and shabbily bedizened females who could only have been prostitutes, mingling freely in the streets.

What a bliss of housewifery, furnishing her room with odd wonderful shabbily elegant pieces of furniture scattered through the house!

Nor did she ever quite forget how long he had worshipped with unostentatious devotion at her lowly shrine of the caisse in the Cafe des Exiles, and how shabbily she had rewarded his admiration--never once, in those many months, with so much as a smile--and how unresentful had been his acceptance of her half-feigned, half-real indifference to his existence.

S, and sketched, rather shabbily, that toad that is ever asquat within its lower curve.

The bots took a few more steps and passed a shabbily dressed human who extended a cane to trip the nearest.

He was the connecting link between the generation which lived in ease, and even a kind of state, upon its own resources, and the new brood, which must live mainly by its wits or industry, and make itself rich, or shabbily subside into that lower stratum known to social geologists by a deposit of Kidderminster carpets and the peculiar aspect of the fossils constituting the family furniture and wardrobe.

He was clad rather shabbily (but as it seemed, more owing to his mother's carelessness than his father's poverty), in a blue apron, very wide and short trousers, shoes somewhat out at the toes, and a chip-hat with the frizzles of his curly hair sticking through the crevices.

The false theatrical beard Maybrick had obtained for him from a cheap shop in SoHo and the dye used to color it left Lachley as anonymous as the thousands of other shabbily dressed working men wandering Whitechapel, wending their way from one gin palace to the next on a drunken pub crawl.

She was nothing much to look at, just an ordinary thirty-eight-gun eighteen-pounder frigate of about a thousand tons that had been shabbily treated by the dockyard in the article of paint and that had been on the North American station for close on two years in all weathers, most of them unpleasant, with ice forming thick on the yards, rigging, and deck, playing Old Harry with what very little she possessed in the way of ornament or gingerbread work or graces.

Zaranda's fine nose wrinkled to a whiff of dirty hair and stale sweat as two young male humans came into the shop, shabbily dressed in black and gray, with hair hanging in their eyes in great unwashed clots.