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Discover LudwigThe phrase "shoddy writing" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe writing that is poorly done or of low quality. Example: "The novel was filled with shoddy writing, making it difficult to stay engaged with the story."
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Some such emails also carry a not-so-veiled suggestion that shoddy writing typifies younger people; in our case, younger reporters and subeditors presumably.
11 irrelevance and shoddy writing notwithstanding, it was this halfhearted culmination of what was once a beautifully complicated friendship that satisfied no one and effectively ended all remaining interest in an already waning phenomenon.
A surprise hit with critics and viewers last summer, watching the final episode with its sloppy plotting, shoddy writing and dislikeable characters behaving inexplicably was like seeing a Mazda lying in the ditch about to catch fire, except that might have been compelling.
Elizabeth Weinbloom from The New York Times concluded, "shoddy writing notwithstanding, it was this halfhearted culmination of what was once a beautifully complicated friendship", between Mulder and Scully that ended remaining interest in what was a "waning phenomenon".
Elizabeth Weinbloom from The New York Times concluded with, "shoddy writing notwithstanding, it was this halfhearted culmination of what was once a beautifully complicated friendship", between Mulder and Scully, ended remaining interest in what was a "waning phenomenon".
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What Evans-Pritchard turned in was so shoddy, Brock writes, that he, Tyrrell's executive editor Wladyslaw Pleszczynski, and Ronald Burr, the magazine's publisher, agreed that it had to be stopped despite Tyrrell's determination to publish it.
Having started out writing shoddy, derivative tunes, they suddenly began churning out a goldmine of great pop songs, from I Want to Hold Your Hand and A Hard Day's Night to Strawberry Fields Forever and Back in the USSR.
If we let guys like Bart Chilton get his way around this type of shoddy headline writing, the walls will get higher around the financial world, not lower, and we will go backwards.
"Suffice it to say that everything from the camera placement to the cheap use of the consistently good, lamentably underemployed Carla Gugino is shoddy," Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in September.
As for what I steer clear of, that would include anything involving shoddy science and/or self-indulgent writing.
Brilliantly spread across multiple publications and presented as actual fact, making it like some sort of written neurotechnical version of the Blair Witch Project, Greenfield's ongoing opus is a masterpiece of 'what if' writing, even spawning some shoddy imitations.
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