Sentence examples for may be shoddy from inspiring English sources

There's my concept of casts in people's homes — the execution may be shoddy, but to me those casts are more valuable than a bronze, or a better piece in a collector's home, and if I've misread my people it means I've misread myself and my concept.

Now at times mortgage loans may be shoddy, mainly when the government gets involved.

Defending may have been shoddy but in a tournament deflated by negativity, this was exhilarating.

Several experts speculated that some construction covered by the contracts may have been shoddy and could eventually pose safety problems.

Service tends to be shoddy.

Third-quarter earnings look set to be shoddy.

Camera work can be shoddy and editing slapdash.

The city is appealing the recommendation, and contends that it may be guilty of shoddy record-keeping, but not fraud.

The reputation for shoddy quality may be the product of a few historical factors: pressing demand in postwar Italy for low-cost cars; a desperate need to export as the country rebuilt; and trade restrictions that kept high-quality Japanese cars out of the home market.

The days of the deadpan half-characters and intentionally shoddy camerawork may be behind us, but it wasn't coldly calculated; audiences seem to have simply moved past the mockumentary.

There could be trouble in the north: its ghastly president, Omar al-Bashir, re-elected in a shoddy poll last year, may be deemed by many of his fellow Muslims to have "lost the south".