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Example sentences for: shabby

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The Washington Post 's Tom Shales says the show, about an unglamorous firm whose lawyers take on lowlifes as clients and work in shabby offices, skillfully interweaves several plots into a single episode.
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.
) Still, $830 million is no shabby performance, and Dell certainly slept the sleep of the innocent--or at least of the successful--that night.
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.
I remember it as a decent, shabby old thing--not a fleapit, but nothing that attempted to be in any way sybaritic.