So, that's going to look pretty shabby now.

The room was empty except for a shabby bed.

As a result, there are simply too many luxurious condominiums, magnificent government office buildings, and soaring skyscrapers. Hotels in China s provincial cities can make five star hotels in Western capitals looked shabby.

This is not a prescription for a soggy policy that denies the demands of the real world. But reliance on realpolitik as the guiding light of foreign policy has a pretty shabby track record.

Defeat came with the non too shabby consolation of silver Britain's third of the day and they could be proud of their efforts in the inaugural Olympic 7s tournament in which they beat New Zealand, Argentina and South Africa along the way.

The British built Rangoon was, of course, the Victorian colonizer s response to what Lewis called the unsubstantial glories of Mandalay. As he put it, These massive columns now rise with shabby dignity from the tangle of scavenging dogs and sprawling, ragged bodies at their base.