Words similar to shabby

Example sentences for: shabby

How can you use “shabby” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

James and Hemingway give way to the shabby backdrops of John Le Carré's novels.
With eight years and counting of Clintonian expansion making Reagan's "seven fat years" look positively shabby, and with supply-side heroes such as Jude Wanniski looking loonier by the day, the Wall Street Journal will take anything it can get.
The reason for the error was the Post 's shabby sourcing.
The farmhouse, the shingled cottages, the library, and the chapel seem as immutable, in their slightly shabby Wyethian perfection, as the sea that sparkles behind them.
Plotz finds this advice cynical and shabby.