Sentence examples for rather shabby from inspiring English sources

"It was a rather shabby trick," said Bailey.

We found it rather shabby and dishevelled, yet all the more romantic for it.

Anyway, he preferred to remain a recluse.Suzanne volunteered to deliver the now rather shabby typescript.

How Italy prosecuted its case in the United States is rather shabby.

In the town centre is a park with some rather shabby statues of the characters.

The truth is that Britain has long had a rather shabby reputation in the toilet department.

The accommodation is not giant megaliths but rather shabby-chic places catering to a mostly western crowd.

The shop is small and rather shabby-looking but smells amazing, filled with the scents of middle-eastern spices, French cheese and lavender.

But that was not the only reason why so many people had flocked to Heidestrasse no 46, the Berlin branch of Haunch of Venison, which sits among a dozen galleries in a rather shabby-looking industrial area behind the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin's Museum of Modern Art.

For clothes that have reached the end of their wearable life the future is shoddy rather than shabby chic.

That would have ensured that his artworks would be treated with the love and respect they deserve, rather than the shabby treatment they've had from the trustees.