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Discover LudwigThe phrase "shabbily dressed" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone (or something) that appears unkempt, poorly groomed, and/or wearing outdated or worn-out clothing. For example, "The man walking down the street was shabbily dressed in a threadbare coat and worn-out shoes."
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Witnesses who thought they saw Stride with a man earlier that night gave differing descriptions: some said her companion was fair, others dark; some said he was shabbily dressed, others well-dressed.
"Looking at the other diners, we seemed shabbily dressed.
while millions of shabbily dressed and poorly fed Americans..
No one who lives there is shabbily dressed or has to go hungry.
His father was shabbily dressed and John felt ashamed of him.
He was a shabbily dressed man, everything he wore having been abandoned by someone else.
I also saw a shabbily dressed homeless woman dragging a cart filled with garbage bags.
Starved of both food and money, she became gaunt and shabbily dressed.
LETTER FROM WARSAW, a city of ruins & unfinished houses, of gray skies, gray faces, & of shabbily dressed people.
They were shabbily dressed, their mounts ungroomed, but the coloured transfers on their brows made Igor afraid.
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In Rome last December, I was shocked by the number of shabbily-dressed Asian men eking out a living selling umbrellas.
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