shoddily

Engineered stone manufacturers say their slabs can be cut safely with proper precautions and that shoddily run workplaces — not their products — are to blame.

These structures became known as dingbats, a common developer name for a structure that was “thrown up quick and shoddily built,” as a newspaper reported at the time.

Enrigue presents us with two societies that feel far removed from our modern sensibilities, one of which — the Aztec empire — has often been shoddily reproduced, its complexity buffed away.

The official explanation differed from a longstanding worry about schools in China: whether they are shoddily built.

That was compounded by a badly structured and shoddily executed citizenship-for-investment program.