Sentence examples for shabby about from inspiring English sources

As Sylvia herself apologetically said, "There was always something a little shabby about Mr. Joyce".

The name might suggest roughing it but there's nothing shabby about this collection of 18 bamboo cottages and wooden "villas" on Havelock Island.

My teenage memories of rainy weekends watching classic movies often had a star — Bette Davis, maybe — shrugging off a compliment with a sneer and the words "This old thing?!" The message was that there was something dull or shabby about relying on wardrobe favorites.

Mr. Winerip writes: "Her husband, Michael, an investment banker, made a large enough income to comfortably support the family, and there was nothing shabby about her record as a stay-at-home mom: The couple's oldest son, Ben, is a senior at Yale, their middle son, Daniel, a freshman at Harvard".

Her husband, Michael, an investment banker, made a large enough income to comfortably support the family, and there was nothing shabby about her record as a stay-at-home mom: The couple's oldest son, Ben, is a senior at Yale, their middle son, Daniel, a freshman at Harvard.

Although Portia gives him every chance to be merciful, there is something faintly shabby about the "no jot of blood" trick she pulls when he refuses (all it really shows is that he has been playing in a rigged game from the start), and there is something downright chilling about the sentence of forced conversion that follows.

In the luminous "What It Was Like, Seeing Chris," a high school girl with vision problems learns to see, in all senses of the word, the shabby truth about the older man who has represented glamour and sexual adventure.

The grass at Wimbledon is looking a bit shabby right about now to Federer, who won't be trampling it anymore in this tournament after capsizing against Tomas Berdych in the quarterfinals.

Batley Grammar, an elegant Victorian building with many original features and a slightly shabby feel about it, is one of five independent schools out of the total of 24 that opened as free schools last month.

And while there's nothing shabby-looking about the evening, what most frequently comes to mind is amateur productions of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Though there is nothing shabby-looking about this latest take on Shaw's early comedy (the first of his self-described "plays pleasant"), what most frequently comes to mind are amateur productions of Gilbert and Sullivan.