shabbyish

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Did anyone see Broon on News 24 at the IMF, shabbyish suit unkempt and uncombed hair, looked as tho he hadn't shaved properly, and his smugnesss and for the camera "smile" when someone said they agreed with him was unpleasant .

More Trouble at't Mill for Gordon Brown 2007
While it was yet visible in the white-hot distance, hovering like some gaudy Brobdingnagian butterfly in advance of the white perambulator pushed by the white-clad nurse, the heads of two little shabbyish, youngish people of the unmistakable Cockney tourist type rose over the edge of a pale sand-crest, fringed with wild chamomile and blazing poppies.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897