The phrase "as a substandard" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is below the expected quality or standard in a particular context.
Example: "The product was marketed as a premium item, but it turned out to be as a substandard version of its competitors."
Alternatives: "of inferior quality" or "below standard".
To think England's supporters could be heard loudly mocking Ibrahimovic at this point as a substandard version of Andy Carroll.
However, it is often twinned with language and argumentation that contribute to the negative perception of replications as a substandard form of research.
When I start trying to be funny while sitting behind a piano, I have 25 years' experience as a substandard pianist, and almost 1,000 stand-up gigs behind me.
City A experienced its seventeenth defeat on this campaign, and was classified as a substandard sanitary city by the central government.
But maybe said sentient beings will just obliterate us anyway, since we'll just register as a substandard intelligence that has a bizarre fascination with running high-powered PCs around the clock in search of meaningless data with only fictional value.
To criticize the positions of others but not to venture to state a position of one's own was regarded by the Indian debate tradition as a substandard use of argumentation called vitaṇḍā, which literally means making an attack.
They look the other way as athletes receive a substandard education, or no education at all.
Error or delay in diagnosis or in treatment, and information or surveillance problem were considered as parts of a "substandard care" category (i.e. procedures not performed according to standard of care).
Acquired in the off-season from Milwaukee in a three-way trade, Burnitz has had a substandard season, as have the Mets.
According to Apple Insider, both actor and director didn't want the spy to appear with a substandard phone as he "only uses the best".
"What a tragedy it is that this hospital has been able to function on such a substandard level as it has," said Tony Bell, a spokesman for Michael D. Antonovich, a Los Angeles County supervisor who has supported the closing.
