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  • r  so as to appear worn and threadbare or dilapidated
    a shabbily dressed man
  • r  in a mean and ungenerous manner
    the two were haggling shabbily in the drawing-room

  • Herndon made no public reply, but a school of Pangborn-sympathizers nursed the belief that Pangborn had been treated shabbily.
  • When Threshie became publisher of the Orange County Register in 1979, he inherited a crotchety, shabbily written newspaper content to doze in the shadow of its bigcity neighbor .
  • The bad guys in this instance are led by a rogue computer genius named Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant) who has been shabbily treated by the federal government.
News & Articles

  • D-Day anniversary coverage
    Re: your June 6 article, “D-Day anniversary commemorations begin in France”: It was with great sadness and disappointment that "The Greatest Generation" was so shabbily treated by The Star when you relegated the most important phase of World War II to the last page of the main news section.
    June 11, 2013 - Ventura County Star
Quotes

  • Edward Kennedy in USA Today
    They'll be treated the same, but they'll be treated shabbily,said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.
  • David Boies in New York Times
    I think she has been treated very shabbily,Mr. Boies said, adding, "I think she deserves justice, and that is what we are in the business of doing."
  • Paul Wolfowitz in Reuters India
    On Tuesday, the committee invited Wolfowitz to appear before it, to which Wolfowitz replied the following day in a note: "I am deeply troubled and feel that I am being treated shabbily and unfairly without regard to appropriate process."

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