The houses they saw there were small and somewhat shabby, he said.

Marion had politely made a point of not looking at her somewhat shabby surroundings.

Sparhawk found a somewhat shabby blue doublet hanging on one of the pegs that looked as if it might fit.

One of Madison's more endearing qualities is the way the somewhat shabby student housing creeps right up on the stately domed capitol building.

And he definitely hadn't expected to find the two greatest heroes of the Demon War living in a one-room apartment over a somewhat shabby family cafe.

Gov. George Pataki treats the executive mansion like a somewhat shabby summer rental.

Perhaps the room is a tad dusty, the bathroom in need of repair, the furnishings somewhat shabby.

She knew that the contrast between Helsinki, with its well-stocked shops and gray, somewhat shabby Moscow, would not be lost on the American visitor.

Weizsaecker survived to write his somewhat shabby memoirs.

All are somewhat shabby, consistently overcrowded and breathtakingly cheap.