shabbily

1. 1.

   so as to appear worn and threadbare or dilapidated

   “a shabbily dressed man”
2. 2.

   in a mean and ungenerous manner

   “the two were haggling shabbily in the drawing-room”

Questions about shabbily

What does shabbily mean?

shabbily means "so as to appear worn and threadbare or dilapidated". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shabbily?

shabbily has 3 syllables: shab-bi-ly. The stress falls on "shab".

Is shabbily a common word?

shabbily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.