shabbily
shabbily adverb: in a shabby manner.
Adverb
shabbily (comparative more shabbily, superlative most shabbily)
- In a shabby manner.
- His host then led him into the room, which was furnished shabbily enough. Not a table or a chair was there in it; nothing but planks and logs of wood to sit on, and eat off.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 531
- 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.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 92
- Done poorly or ineptly.
Forms of shabbily
| comparative | more shabbily |
|---|---|
| superlative | most shabbily |
Origin of shabbily
From shabby + -ly.
Questions about shabbily
- What does shabbily mean?
- Shabbily means in a shabby manner.
- What part of speech is shabbily?
- Shabbily is an adverb.
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