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- adjective
superlative form ofshabby : mostshabby .
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Examples
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It\'s called the shabbiest of all lies, "Silent assertion."
Energy and the Silent Lie: Part 16--Next Added 100 Million Americans 2007
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He told him that these two camps were about the worst and shabbiest he had ever seen during his year of travelling about Germany.
Work Camp 10911 GW 2010
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I am spending time on eBay these days trying to replace the shabbiest of the ones in my collection, and also ever searching for numbers Six, Seven and Eight which I have only in bound-volume form, without their covers.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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I am spending time on eBay these days trying to replace the shabbiest of the ones in my collection, and also ever searching for numbers Six, Seven and Eight which I have only in bound-volume form, without their covers.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jean 2009
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On Friday, in the middle of the worst heatwave Russia's ever had, he paid a visit to one of the country's shabbier beaches in one of its shabbiest towns, Chelyabinsk, a porcupine of smokestacks near the border with Kazakhstan.
Simon Shuster: Putin's Pee Joke: It Would Be Funny if it Weren't so Sad 2010
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So she picked the darkest, shabbiest alley she could find and curled up for a few hours of fitful sleep.
Behemoth Mr. Scott Westerfeld 2010
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It's the shabbiest, most pathetic piece of journalism-for-hire I have ever read, and I am not excluding propaganda releases put out by China and Russia.
Obama's Speech Heavy In Specifics And Direct Hits -- Thanks To McCain's Attacks! 2009
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This device is a darling of critics and pseudo-sophisticates, but it's the shabbiest cliche of all, and I have only scorn for creators who resort to it.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Some of the sellers are homemakers and they have a knack for taking the simplest and shabbiest item, and displaying it on a colored cloth and making it look appealing.
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And where is the outcry over the fact that we are teaching kids with the shabbiest of examples by our own inactivity, blunting the sharpness of their heart-felt and justified curiosity about the state of the world we have created for them in the process?
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