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shabbily

shab·bily

uncommon

adverb

1.

so as to appear worn and threadbare or dilapidated

  • “a shabbily dressed man”
2.

in a mean and ungenerous manner

  • “the two were haggling shabbily in the drawing-room”

Origin

From shabby + -ly.

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