Alf was shabbily dressed, with his unkempt, thinning grey hair greased back. Larry asks her why she's dressed so shabbily. They are all shabbily dressed, rough and tough. No one who lives there is shabbily dressed or has to go hungry. A shabbily dressed and aggressive young man bursts into the hotel. She is dressed shabbily, and there are no modern conveniences in evidence. Gitelson is now successful and well-dressed, while David is poor and shabbily dressed. One of his neighbours saw Sir Arthur, somewhat shabbily dressed, doing the gardening in 1965.