shabby

Example Sentences

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“I’m doing an analysis right now for a couple where his PIA is $4,050 and hers is not too shabby, either. They could have $100,000 coming in as income per year. That’s a huge foundation.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

Starting pay for its nurses averages close to $120,000, which isn’t shabby even in a city with a high cost of living.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

In a flashback, Martini is seen leaving his shabby Potter-owned apartment with a goat and a troop of kids for a suburban tract home that Bailey developed and sold to him.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Series creator Sterlin Harjo superbly utilizes Ethan Hawke’s magnetism as Lee Raybon, a shabby, perpetually bruised citizen journalist sniffing around conspiracies the rest of the world would rather ignore.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2025

Shadow saw a gray-haired old east-European immigrant, with a shabby raincoat and one iron-colored tooth, true.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman