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comparative more shabbily · superlative most shabbily
- In a shabby manner.
His host then led him into the room, which was furnished shabbily enough. Not a table or a chair was there in it; nothing but planks and logs of wood to sit on, and eat off.
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 5311 more example
King-of-the-Sky, whose wife had been so shabbily treated in the turtle division by not being given more than her due share, sat with his great back to one of the house posts.
1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 92
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