shoddy

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Having grown up in Asia before moving to the West, I've always wondered why we accept such shoddy excuses for lunch around here.

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noun

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adjective

cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist

adjective

of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-built houses"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shoddy.

noun

reclaimed wool fiber

adjective

cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist

adjective

of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-built houses"

adjective

designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"

Example sentences

Having grown up in Asia before moving to the West, I've always wondered why we accept such shoddy excuses for lunch around here.

The quality can be shoddy, the wear can cause excruciating pain, yet some top brands sell for hundreds and even thousands a pair.

The worst thing about working yourself to death at Zynga would be knowing you were toiling to produce shoddy little pseudo-games.

You can't just start writing and shipping stuff, partly because there's so much infrastructure, and partly because you pay for shoddy code later.

I have definitely done a shoddy job trying to describe what makes _why special for me, I am not even sure it can be adequately put into words.

In particular, the "feature" where "More" links and such randomly expire after a while just screams "shoddy implementation" to me.

From their perspective, a shoddy, rushed implementation to an unhappy client is still better than having them walk away from the purchase entirely.

Regardless of your political leanings, I think most folks in the US right now agree that Congress is doing a pretty shoddy job of representing the people's interests.

So we have tens of thousands of "officers" harassing normal business travelers daily as part of this ongoing shoddy security theater.

And a couple of years later when the tub sprung a leak, the plumber couldnt figure out how to get in there, said they must have done a shoddy job on connecting the pipes, then when he finally got a good look at it, realized why they did it that way.