Shabbily

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a shabby manner.

    "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."

  2. 2
    Done poorly or ineptly.
Adverb
  1. 1
    in a mean and ungenerous manner wordnet
  2. 2
    so as to appear worn and threadbare or dilapidated wordnet

Synonyms

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atrociouslyawfullydreadfullyflagrantlygrosslyhorribly

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From shabby + -ly.

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