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shabbily

/shab-ee/US // ˈʃæb i //UK // (ˈʃæbɪ) //

卑鄙地,卑微地,卑劣地,寒酸地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    shab·bi·er, shab·bi·est.

    • : impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
    • : showing conspicuous signs of wear or neglect: The rooms on the upper floors of the mansion had a rather shabby appearance, as if they had not been much in use of late.
    • : wearing worn clothes or having a slovenly or unkempt appearance: a shabby person.
    • : run-down, seedy, or dilapidated: a shabby hotel.
    • : meanly ungenerous or unfair; contemptible, as persons, actions, etc.: shabby behavior.
    • : inferior; not up to par in quality, performance, etc.: a shabby rendition of the sonata.

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Examples

  • She thought it would be treating it too shabbily to throw it aside among the love-sick trash she was in the habit of receiving.

  • On the street he met many individuals most shabbily clad, who offered him fifty louis in gold for twelve sous.

  • He was a working man shabbily clothed, and wearing a dingy brown ulster and slouch hat.

  • A little mean-looking man, shabbily dressed in something of the same costume, trotted humbly along on the off-side.

  • Shabbily dressed men, with exaltation in their faces, and women of all ages and types, uniform only in their costumes.