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Definition of Shabbily
1. Adverb. So as to appear worn and threadbare or dilapidated. "A shabbily dressed man"
2. Adverb. In a mean and ungenerous manner. "The two were haggling shabbily in the drawing-room"
Definition of Shabbily
1. adv. In a shabby manner.
Definition of Shabbily
1. Adverb. In a shabby manner. ¹
2. Adverb. Done poorly or ineptly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shabbily
1. shabby [adv] - See also: shabby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shabbily
Literary usage of Shabbily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"If I say with St. Paul ' Better marry than burn.' maggots. ON MEETING AT MR.
GARRICK'S AM AUTHOR VERY shabbily DRESSED IN AN OLD ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"GARRICK'S AN AUTHOR VERY shabbily DRESSED IS AN OLD VELVET WAISTCOAT, ON WHICH
ИЕ HAD SEWED EMBROIDERY OF A LATER DATE. THREE waistcoats, in three distant ..."
3. The Principles of Practical Publicity; Being a Treatise on "the Art of by Truman Armstrong De Weese (1908)
"No "shabbily Dressed" Booklet Will Sell Goods If you are talking to the reader
about automobiles, it is best to lead him out into country byways, ..."
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