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Example sentences for: shabby

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The Serbo-Croatians, for instance, picked up the English word nylon , but took it to mean a kind of shabby and disreputable variation, so that a nylon hotel is a `brothel' while a nylon beach is where nudists frolic.
I remember it as a decent, shabby old thing--not a fleapit, but nothing that attempted to be in any way sybaritic.
In his shabby house, he listens to the blue-collar wail of Bruce Springsteen.
Not one of the world’s prettiest cities, its preponderance for concrete can give it a drab and shabby look even on the brightest of days.
Most of the time, these shabby "soldiers" just sit around and rack their (small) brains for new schemes, worried that if profits fall too low, they're going to find themselves "clipped" or "whacked."