shabbily

Adverb

Meaning

in a mean and ungenerous manner

so as to appear worn and threadbare or dilapidated

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

poor poorly cheap badly reasonably moderately cheaply insufficiently carelessly miserably awfully dreadfully foully terribly slovenly

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Antonyms

greatly extensively sharply everywhere adequately finely

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Anagrams

babishly

Examples

The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy. Hillary Clinton

the two were haggling shabbily in the drawing-room Source: Internet

a shabbily dressed man Source: Internet

Although this would seem the most impressive phase of work, Stonehenge 3 IV was rather shabbily built compared to its immediate predecessors, as the newly re-installed bluestones were not well-founded and began to fall over. Source: Internet

I guess shabby hotels just treat their employees shabbily. Source: Internet

Despite their munificence to him during his struggling times, Ernest Hemingway would treat Sara and Gerald rather shabbily in his memoir, A Moveable Feast. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

shabbier shabbiest shabbify shabbiness shabble shabbos