shoddy

Example Sentences

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From a market perspective, they help reveal shoddy management practices and even fraud.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

May, 49, got his start as a head coach at Florida Atlantic University—a school with such shoddy basketball resources that he tried to avoid showing prospective recruits the locker room, or its lukewarm showers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

It has been alleged that RT Diagnostics, which made £6.67m in three weeks, was set up in "shoddy and inadequate premises" in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and gave out false negative results to customers.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 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

In fact, his shoddy work may well have been the key to his success as a double agent.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau