shabby
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Online forums are full of disappointed customers complaining about Reformation pieces’ shabby quality relative to their premium pricing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Gary Oldman wants to play shabby secret agent 'for the long run'
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
The whole affair was tawdry, shabby, and cheap—designed to pander to downwardly mobile young men who felt angry at the world.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Super Micro Computer spiked 69% in May—not quite as good as its rival, Dell, but not too shabby.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
The room was small arid shabby, containing only a rectangular table and three chairs with blue plastic seats.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
The meeting house grows progressively more dilapidated, and the costumes get shabbier, indicating that things aren’t going well for the Puritans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
However, the photo she said she took in person showed a much shabbier house, featuring uneven grass and cluttered with yard equipment where the bench was supposed to be.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2025
He enjoyed a comfortable childhood north of Montana, until the family real estate company faltered in the early ’90s and the Millers eventually relocated to a smaller rental on Santa Monica’s shabbier southern end.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2025
The play is being staged in the city’s South End, described in “Common Ground” as “a shabbier, scruffier part of the city,” but now polished and pricey.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2022
But this one was smaller and shabbier than the rest.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
But it is a copout of the shabbiest sort to exploit this anxiety as a way of averting our gaze from the undiminished threat of North Korea.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2017
We’re the ones who highlight the shabbiest research.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2016
The pattern veered to the extreme Saturday afternoon, when the Nationals followed their self-described biggest win of the season with one of their shabbiest losses.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2013
Not the shabbiest of lists, we're sure you'll agree.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2013
Though the Nolans lived in the shabbiest house in Irish Town, the boys were the dressiest in the neighborhood.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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