Sentence examples similar to substandard wording from inspiring English sources
When the novel begins, Astrid's favourite word is "substandard", but by the end it is in the process of being replaced by "preternaturally".
62 Weijer resists this conclusion: he reminds us that the concept of equipoise was developed precisely in order to reassure doctors that participants would not be at risk of receiving substandard care 63– in other words, to avoid exploitation.
To many American journalists, this is a dirty word, associated with news operations that are substandard and therefore subsidised.
1. a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard 2. a characteristic language of a particular group The word patois has appeared in 29 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Oct. 11 in "Americans Are Barmy Over Britishisms" by Alex Williams: Some phrases that were rarely heard 5 or 10 years ago suddenly seem ubiquitous.
These days, I'm better in the morning, and definitely substandard creatively by the evening, but stick rigorously to my weekly word target.
In other words, it becomes so much easier to hand undocumented immigrants substandard housing or dangerous jobs if we call them "illegals" and categorize them as lazy and shiftless.
It was Gove who refused to dismiss words as slang when they could be designated "nonstandard" or "substandard," made pronunciations more varied (the Third featured 26 ways to pronounce "lingerie," 24 more than the Second contained) and otherwise made the Third more abstruse and less fathomable.
In other words, human development plays a positive role in improving reporting timeliness for countries in which development remained substandard.
Temporary, substandard grass fields?
Housing is often substandard.
