It's shabby. It's awful.

It was very shabby behavior.

That would be so shabby.

That doesn t sound too shabby to me.

But when a girl gets too shabby...

Shabby jobs for who'd ever hire me.

It was a big, but shabby, house

So, that's going to look pretty shabby now.

And then Christopher evidently did something pretty shabby...

So please pick something light that doesn't look shabby.

Their shabby outfits do not protect them from the sun.

I'm very sorry for gathering you in such a shabby location.

And we're helping him get those things in our shabby little office.

Am I mad? Cuss began abruptly, as he entered the shabby little study.

We had a late lunch at a shabby, lonely restaurant by the sea there.

Hotels in China s provincial cities can make five star hotels in Western capitals looked shabby.

Well, the man gave me a funny look because I did look a bit shabby.

The driver looked twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could object.

I couldn't face being cooped up for the rest of my life in a shabby little office...

Hee Joo told me that she never got the courage to talk to you. She always felt too shabby and pathetic.

He was a short, stout person in an extraordinarily shabby top hat, and he appeared to be very much out of breath.

As he put it, These massive columns now rise with shabby dignity from the tangle of scavenging dogs and sprawling, ragged bodies at their base.

The district is poor by any reckoning, with 100,000 people crammed into shabby corrugated iron and tarpaulin covered huts along miles of dirt pathways and hillsides.

The swiftness of Belarus s economic meltdown reflects the directness of its cause Russia had been financing Lukashenko s shabby paradise, and then it decided to stop paying.

Given the current frenzy of fad diets and the eternal search for simple remedies for complex conditions, moderation in all things may seem like shabby medicine.

The English clergyman was poor and he had five children nearly all the same age and they wore shabby clothes and were always quarreling and snatching toys from each other.

Given this history, it is a bit shabby to reproach China now for its exchange rate policy a policy that enabled the US to live beyond its means for so long.

Nevertheless, you're going to go into this building, you're going to walk down this hall, you're going to go through the door, and you're going to find yourself in a very shabby apartment.

This is not a prescription for a soggy policy that denies the demands of the real world. But reliance on realpolitik as the guiding light of foreign policy has a pretty shabby track record.

And my biggest worry is that we're creating a world where we're going to have glittering technologies embedded in kind of a shabby society and supported by an economy that generates inequality instead of opportunity.

It was a poky, little, shabby genteel place, where four lines of dingy two storied brick houses looked out into a small railed in enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded

The British built Rangoon was, of course, the Victorian colonizer s response to what Lewis called the unsubstantial glories of Mandalay. As he put it, These massive columns now rise with shabby dignity from the tangle of scavenging dogs and sprawling, ragged bodies at their base.

When the dusk was gathering and Iping was just beginning to peep timorously forth again upon the shattered wreckage of its Bank Holiday, a short, thick set man in a shabby silk hat was marching painfully through the twilight behind the beechwoods on the road to Bramblehurst.

Within are shabby shelves, ranged round with old decanters, bottles, flasks and in those jaws of swift destruction, like another cursed Jonah (by which name indeed they called him), bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death.

However, a response must be given to the unfounded accusations that have been made unjustly against a peace loving country of the Balkans, accusations that constitute a shabby attempt to divert the attention of the international community from the catastrophe in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina resulting from and prolonged by Serbian aggression.