It is a shabby, lifeless place, with nothing but a few tables and chairs.

Before many hours of daylight had passed the small party reached the inn, and a shabby place it was.

The motel loomed, a shabby place that dated to the 1950's.

It was a shabby, tattered place but the room I got on the second floor was ideal.

She had recently moved to a shabby little place in the city.

However shabby the place was, he had trust in Clarson's medical skills.

There was no night clerk on duty - not at this shabby place.

But she was growing tired of living in shabby places and became determined to buy her own home.

Her hotel downtown was a small, shabby place on Colon.

(there are probably other more shabby places as well).