substandard
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His team is physically weak and mentally substandard.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
He characterized wages for braceros as unconscionably low, the food substandard and the housing prison-like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The Adelanto ICE Processing Center has, for years, been accused of substandard living conditions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
"And a lot of this stuff that we've looked at is just very, very substandard."
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
In the 1920s, some 80 percent of black Durham residents lived in substandard housing, a figure that remained unchanged in the Hayti area four decades later.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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