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Recent Examples of shabby Together these buildings trace the contours of change in the city, its history jumbled out of order on a slightly shabby street. Francesca Carington, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025 The widower is a two-time National Lottery winner who lives an uncomplicated existence in an old mansion both grand and shabby. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2025 And while this residence’s direct access to Harmony ski run sweetens the deal, its panoramic vistas of the landscape’s natural beauty aren’t too shabby, either. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2025 Even Britain’s right-wing newspapers were outraged by Trump’s shabby treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, while Reform’s existing voters are already outliers in their sharply anti-immigration views. Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shabby
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Adjective
  • Police questioned him in 1994 after a man named Mark Peters turned up dead, tied to a chair in a dilapidated cabin in northern Kentucky.
    Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2025
  • Disaster could have been avoided The bridge project aimed to replace a dilapidated wood bridge about 27 miles northeast of Kansas City, in unincorporated Clay County.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 4 May 2025
Adjective
  • Its tattered and faded copy of the Magna Carta is worth millions of dollars, Carpenter estimated—though Harvard has no plans to sell it.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
  • The bottom half of the dog's body stayed pinned underneath a tattered couch on a pile of trash as flies circled him.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But the area where these cuts will be felt most acutely is with respect to elder abuse, which is already a neglected area of health care and social services.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
  • By upcycling a neglected garment, Hirsch hopes to give someone the chance to experience the beauty and craftsmanship that goes into creating a piece.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The square of white cloth was about to be sewn into a bigger pieces displaying political messages, but the ragged edges didn't neatly line up with the other pieces.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 7 May 2025
  • Musk: Tesla not on ‘ragged edge of death’ Musk dismisses the idea that the company is in any serious financial distress.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Her devotees are still sweating through workouts at a faded gym in Queens.
    Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • It’s all come a long way from Tennant’s time in a house of eight girls at university, laundry drying racks layered with shapeless, faded underwear.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 20 May 2025

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“Shabby.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shabby. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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