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Shabbily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a shabby manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a local television interview last week, Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, said of Trump’s run: “I don’t think it’s a very serious candidacy, frankly.” Trump also came under fire on Monday from Bush, who performed shabbily in the most recent polls.
  • (2) City will not be able to get away with defending this shabbily against José Mourinho’s team.
  • (3) The second was the lobbying campaign in which all bidders took advantage of grey areas in the shabbily defined rules surrounding the dual race for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments to offer to build training academies, arrange or host lucrative friendlies and do everything in their power and budget (limitless, in Qatar's case) to win votes.
  • (4) Almost everyone agrees that the Chagossians were shabbily treated, to say the least, but there does not seem to be anyone in government prepared to right the wrong.
  • (5) Like all nations, we have sometimes behaved shabbily.
  • (6) Trump counters misogyny allegations by saying Fiorina has a 'beautiful face' Read more As the Republican frontrunner arrived to resounding applause, he told attendees to “sit down, you’ll be here for a while.” Trump then gave uncharacteristally short monologue where he complained about the debate, in his words, “it was three hours, felt like more than that” as well as his treatment by cable news networks, “Fox treated me shabbily, CNN a little bit better.” But not everything was bad for Trump, he bragged that in every online poll (none of which were scientific) he had won.
  • (7) It has to be said, his parents' approach doesn't seem to have worked out too shabbily for him.
  • (8) Labour MP David Winnick accused Sedwill and the home secretary, Amber Rudd , of “shabbily misleading” the committee last month when giving evidence about Goddard’s departure.
  • (9) Savina, however, said the journalists had been treated shabbily.
  • (10) A period of doleful introspection last week over how the world's wealthiest nation could treat its poor so shabbily will now be followed by a flag-waving orgy hailing patriotic resilience in the face of a vicious attack.
  • (11) Some say treated shabbily by ministers; he angered them by saying that teacher shortages were the worst in his career.

Shabby


Definition:

  • (n.) Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.
  • (n.) Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.
  • (n.) Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
  • (2) Given what is now known about the way the case was made for launching an arguably illegal war – this country's biggest foreign policy debacle since Suez – Heywood's refusal to release the conversations smacks of a shabby cover-up at worst, or foot-dragging in a moderately more charitable interpretation.
  • (3) It is not something you can deal with tactically and this is a tactic, this is a stunt, it is simply designed to distract the house and the public and the people from the shabby tactics of the Labor party.
  • (4) Alistair Darling 's self-serving memoir only reminds us of his own shabby role when he, more than any other, had the power to do it.
  • (5) Photographs from inside the flat showed a cramped and shabby home whose contents had been turned over by investigators.
  • (6) To be fair, that was probably a much better use of Miliband's time, given Labour's shabby showing in the opinion polls.
  • (7) "I only had two hours sleep after we finished partying before going on breakfast TV this morning," she says, despite the fact she is filling this tiny room, a shabby corner of the new BBC building in central London, with her warp-scale energy.
  • (8) But here inBritain – crammed into a shabby and overcrowded carriage on your way (thank God) out of your stressful City job – is there any joy to the journey?
  • (9) The UK chain generates two thirds of group profits and had been milked to bankroll international expansion, leading to shabby stores and deteriorating customer service.
  • (10) So what if the rooms are tiny, shabby and atmosphere-free?
  • (11) Appraising his shabby suit, the jeweller suggests he pick up something cheaper from the local bazaar.
  • (12) San Diego made some gesture towards addressing their shabby offensive line play by drafting offensive tackle DJ Fluker in the first round, but they needed to do more.
  • (13) In her day this was a gritty neighbourhood and it hasn’t changed much, with a shabby market by the metro station and blocks of peeling townhouses; this is the real, old Paris, the world she sang about, with its desperate cast of thieves and tramps and lovers.
  • (14) He told MPs he personally objected to having to pay a television licence fee of £145.50, as he attacked the coverage of the jubilee celebrations as "scandalous, shabby and rather unprofessional".
  • (15) The judge, perched in front of a shabby Russian flag, refused to look at the defence.
  • (16) Around 40 people crammed into the shabby courtroom, as dozens of journalists were left stranded outside, blocked from entering by burly police.
  • (17) His B of the Bang sculpture in Manchester was dismantled after it started shedding metal, and his Blue Carpet in Newcastle was late and over budget and in the space of a few years became grey and shabby .
  • (18) Malcolm Turnbull has launched a forceful defence of his investments in funds registered in the Cayman Islands , while condemning Labor for mounting a “shabby smear campaign” about his personal wealth, based on “the politics of envy”.
  • (19) When the PM next berates Jeremy Corbyn over a shabby suit, the Labour leader will be able to reply that, unlike Cameron, he isn’t receiving a subsidy for it from the party.
  • (20) The Senate was less than impressed with that shabby process and the Senate voted last night.” The government announced in the 2015 budget that it would give the Australian tax office greater powers to stop global companies using “artificial or contrived arrangements” to avoid tax obligations – but the Senate passed the legislation only after making an amendment relating to tax transparency.

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