Which preposition to use with shabby

in Occurrences 10%

The world is shabby in the way It treats a fellow too; It just endures him while he works, And kicks him when he's through.

of Occurrences 9%

They are nicely contrived lodging-houses, one and all,the best as well as the shabbiest of them,and therefore inevitably lack some nameless property that a home should have.

as Occurrences 5%

Surely it had not been so mouse-gray and shabby as this when she had been there.

than Occurrences 3%

It was ten o'clock when the three returned from Tivoli and the ColosseumMary Gowd silent and shabbier than ever from the dust of the road; Blue Cape smiling; Tweetie frankly pettish.

for Occurrences 3%

He had on a straw hat, a linen sack that had certainly been washed and re-washed for a summer or two, and gray trousers a good deal worn,a dress, in short, which an American mother in middle station would have thought too shabby for her darling school-boy's ordinary wear.

about Occurrences 2%

There's good stuff in the lad,nothing shabby about him.

from Occurrences 1%

And it came as some new thing, and to be appreciated, to find the furniture a little shabby from having been in the same place so long; and the pictures most of them rather bad, but really ancestors; and the drawing-room and our bedrooms lovely and bright with flowery chintzes, fresh and shiny, no tapestry and wonderful brocade; and the table-cloths plain, and no lace on the sheets, nor embroideries to scratch the ear.

by Occurrences 1%

Those west rooms would be fine, furnished with summer stuffI wouldn't for the world have you put anything in them that would make the other part of the house look shabby by contrast.

at Occurrences 1%

She continued: "But ye see a guid, honest Scotchwoman's no to be suspected of being shabby at her own table; so read ye that, which you may take for the bread-pudding.

to Occurrences 1%

But when she went up into the great brilliantly lighted bedchamber at the Selwyns', and saw Mary Marcy in her perfectly fitting gown drawing on her delicate gloves, and talking with several young ladies beautifully dressed in fresh muslin and silk, the skimp skirt and sleeves, the shrunken waist and washed sash, seemed all at once very mean and shabby to Angela.

with Occurrences 1%

A few days after the visit to Cadurcis, when Lady Annabel was sitting alone, a postchaise drove up to the hall, whence issued a short and stout woman with a rubicund countenance, and dressed in a style which remarkably blended the shabby with the tawdry.

without Occurrences 1%

The hat that hung in the passage below might have been much shabbier without necessarily indicating poverty.

Which preposition to use with  shabby