Sentence examples for a shoddy from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a shoddy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is of poor quality or poorly made.
Example: "The furniture they sold was a shoddy imitation of the real thing."
Alternatives: "a substandard" or "a poor-quality".

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What a shoddy system.

What a shoddy mess.

But it was a shoddy job.

"There is no such thing as a shoddy engine maker.

Too often universities offer their paying guests a shoddy service.

We hanged Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto after a shoddy trial.

But he still saw cinema as a shoddy stopgap.

It also signals that the company is too heavily invested to turn out a shoddy product.

Graft is endemic: the country ranks a shoddy 106th in Transparency International's corruption index.

Congo, now undergoing a shoddy election, still looks barely governable and hideously corrupt.

A student cannot simply turn in a shoddy paper, take the D and move on.

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