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shabbily, adv.|ˈʃæbɪlɪ| [-ly2.] In a shabby manner (see the adj.).
1755Johnson, Shabbily, meanly; reproachfully; despicably; paltrily. A cant word. 1756Mrs. Delany Autobiog. (1861) III. 417 Madame de Sevigné goes on but shabbily: this cold weather numbs my faculties. 1781J. Ripley Sel. Orig. Lett. 47 The caparisons upon his horse, shabbily splendid. 1821J. W. Croker Diary 12 June, Burdett..comes shabbily off, for he denies a meaning which his words have. 1829Lytton Devereux iii. vi, A little dark man, shabbily dressed. 1870M. Bridgman R. Lynne II. ii. 23 The rooms were furnished shabbily. 1879F. W. Robinson Coward Consc. iv. i, Fanny behaved so shabbily to your brother. |