That doesn t sound too shabby to me.

Their shabby outfits do not protect them from the sun.

Far worse for Europe would be to avoid serious reform and lapse into egalitarian and genteel decline.

Hotels in China s provincial cities can make five star hotels in Western capitals looked shabby.

Four decades ago, in more genteel times, an opposition legislator once ended a debate whose outcome was a foregone conclusion, with the words, We have the arguments.

As he put it, These massive columns now rise with shabby dignity from the tangle of scavenging dogs and sprawling, ragged bodies at their base.

The district is poor by any reckoning, with 100,000 people crammed into shabby corrugated iron and tarpaulin covered huts along miles of dirt pathways and hillsides.

The swiftness of Belarus s economic meltdown reflects the directness of its cause Russia had been financing Lukashenko s shabby paradise, and then it decided to stop paying.

Given the current frenzy of fad diets and the eternal search for simple remedies for complex conditions, moderation in all things may seem like shabby medicine.

Given this history, it is a bit shabby to reproach China now for its exchange rate policy a policy that enabled the US to live beyond its means for so long.

This is not a prescription for a soggy policy that denies the demands of the real world. But reliance on realpolitik as the guiding light of foreign policy has a pretty shabby track record.

The British built Rangoon was, of course, the Victorian colonizer s response to what Lewis called the unsubstantial glories of Mandalay. As he put it, These massive columns now rise with shabby dignity from the tangle of scavenging dogs and sprawling, ragged bodies at their base.