shabbilyadv.
/ˈʃabɪli/ In a shabby manner (see the adjective).
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adverb]
hokerly?c1225
caitiflyc1425
contemptiblya1438
villainously1484
scabbedly1548
sneakishly1560
miserably1585
contemnedly1594
pitifully1601
dirtilya1631
worthlessly1637
mangilya1640
projectedly1660
despicablya1691
shabbily1755
unsolidly1755
worm-like1814
scrubbily1891
motherfucking1966
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adverb]
arghlyc1000
vilelyc1290
vilea1400
brothelyc1400
caitiflyc1425
scabbedly1548
vildly1575
unsela1583
basely1593
unnobly1595
dirtilya1631
shabbily1755
base-mindedly1851
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adverb] > in shabby manner
shabbily1755
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Shabbily, meanly; reproachfully; despicably; paltrily. A cant word.
1755 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 417 Madame de Sevigné goes on but shabbily: this cold weather numbs my faculties.
1781 J. Ripley Sel. Orig. Lett. 47 The caparisons upon his horse, shabbily splendid.
1821 J. W. Croker Diary 12 June Burdett..comes shabbily off, for he denies a meaning which his words have.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux II. ii. vi. 108 A little dark man, shabbily dressed.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. ii. 23 The rooms were furnished shabbily.
1879 F. W. Robinson Coward Conscience iv. i Fanny behaved so shabbily to your brother.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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