Eksempler på shabbiness

• The contrast is between earlier heroic struggles and the shabbiness of modern political farce.

• I have been struck by the shabbiness of the arguments which have been advanced by otherwise intelligent men in support of this despicable measure.

• This really is shabbiness carried to an extremity.

• The result has been the increasing shabbiness, poverty and unemployment of the people of this country.

• At best, it may be said that a certain shabbiness in public goods might be endured for the benefit of some.

• I recall particularly the shabbiness of the coats of those unselfish women, who for many years had been unable to afford new clothes for themselves.

• There is too much shabbiness and squalor, and there is often a drugs culture.

• They leave off that collar; they come to shabbiness.