shoddy

Example Sentences

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When Slovakia was part of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the cars it made were, by Western standards, shoddy, noisy, thirsty and slow.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

Anyone who has worked for a wage has shared space with someone whose work was so shoddy that it made you angry to receive the same salary at week’s end.

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2026

Cobb didn’t find much to read about menopause, beyond shoddy research and medical tracts which trivialized or pathologized what she knew to be a natural phase of life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

Yet they also had the sharpest production losses over the past two decades, partly due to routine water-flooding and shoddy maintenance.

From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026

“In all my years as a guardian, I have never seen such shoddy social work! ”

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter