Sentence examples for rather shoddy from inspiring English sources

For all the hubris of its presence, the Hussein bust removed Tuesday was of rather shoddy construction.

Michael Caine's unforgettable line was voted the best ever one-liner in a 2003 poll by the British Library (the same year the rather shoddy remake was released).

This was accomplished, despite a shortage of funds, by August 1820, when the rather shoddy fleet, consisting mainly of armed merchant ships, under the command of Thomas Cochrane (later 10th Earl of Dundonald), left Valparaíso for the Peruvian coast.

From the poster and the synopsis describing a story of a Vietnam vet out for revenge, this appears to be a rather shoddy rip-off of 70s exploitation classic Walking Tall.

Yep, Maradona was rather shoddy that day and Belgium went on to win the match 1-0; consequenthe, the image was initially cast onto the scrapheap and only received appreciation in the years that followed.

The public servants, or babus, were a governing class, not a consuming class; there was, in any case, scarcely anything to consume, since import and license restrictions ensured that all but the jet-setters had to content themselves with an extremely limited range of generally rather shoddy domestic merchandise.

Rather than shoddy graphic design or grammar, the first giveaway that the stories were fake (according my editor who knows a lot more about sports than me) was that "it'd be super weird for [Redskins owner] Dan Snyder to do something reasonable".

For clothes that have reached the end of their wearable life the future is shoddy rather than shabby chic.

Syncing to your phone now just requires Bluetooth and a seven-second press of the shutter button, rather than a shoddy QR code scan.

The trouble is that American military aid helps dictators consolidate their power, leaving entrenched authoritarian regimes running shoddy states, rather than countries resilient enough to face threats from Afghanistan or to allow legitimate opposition from within.

The problem was that microconsoles were always perceived as shoddy knockoffs rather than neat devices with a vision.