shabbily

Etymology

shabby + -ly

adv

  1. In a shabby manner.
    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
  2. Done poorly or ineptly.

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