Defending liberty does not always feel a fine or noble thing when what must be defended is itself shabby, mean or nasty.
The public will not put up with shabby surroundings; the cinemas must be attractive places in themselves.
I think that it is a little shabby.
I say the man who says that is shabby in the extreme.
I think that that is a shabby omission.
Surely this is a very shabby way in which to respond to the faith that those people have placed in us.
The suggestion that we are in favour of the reduction of the wages of the miner is a gross and shabby libel.
A policy which encompasses both either reflects a lack of clear thinking or must be the result of a shabby political compromise.