| ADJ | shoddy | shoddier | shoddiest |
| NOUN | shoddy | - |
| SYNO | cheapjack | deceptive | jerry-built | ... |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Anwendungsbeispiele Englisch
- An exhibition of "shoddy art", challenging misconceptions about disabled people, was held in Batley in May 2016.
- The town became famous for its textile industry, notably the cloth, shoddy, which was worn by both sides in the American Civil War.
- The Royal Thai Army overthrew the Thaksin government in September 2006, using the allegedly shoddy construction of the airport as one of the justifications for its coup.
- In both cases, therefore, there came to be a very strong tendency to equate good with authentic, and shoddy with interpolated. This, too, was a mindset inherited from the Alexandrians.
- Bob Todd is the only actor referred to by name in the episodes, usually by an exasperated cast member expressing dismay at his shoddy disguises.
- Percy runs a travel-agency for lonely men who travel abroad to meet potential wives. He takes them to a shoddy hotel in Tallinn, Estonia, where things get complicated.
- The tarmac scam is a confidence trick in which criminals sell fake or shoddy tarmac (asphalt) and driveway resurfacing. It is particularly common in Europe but practiced worldwide.
- Shoddy was invented by Benjamin Law of Batley in 1813.
- Henning Conle (born February 1944) is a UK-based German-Swiss Conle is "long-renowned in his home country of Germany for shoddy buildings and acrimonious tenant disputes".
- The bridge continued to be under weekly repair even as of 2016, suffering due to "shoddy work".
- The shoddy masonry work and poor quality material facilitated both destruction by quarrying and erosion.
- Lehman sided with General Dynamics after it had falsified inspection records to hide welding flaws on submarines and pushed a settlement that paid over 600 million dollars for what Rickover called shoddy work.
- The New Indian Express wrote:"lacklustre characters, insipid narration and shoddy screenplay make the film devoid of thrill, humour or excitement".
- The programme covers various aspects of counterfeiting and its effects on consumers, including dangerous tools, ineffective or dangerous medicines, shoddy goods sold under reputable names, and documents used for identity theft.
- Young is currently working on a book chronicling how public demands for “justice,” shoddy police investigations and systemic judicial bias too often rob innocent people of their liberty and deprive crime victims of authentic justice.
- The South Carolina plant has been accused of shoddy production and ignoring safety defects in its airplanes in favor of meeting deadlines.
- Amidst allegations of blatant corruption, shoddy construction work at venues and security concerns for participating athletes, the 2010 Commonwealth Games have faced numerous boycott calls from individuals in India, England and Australia.
- Scientific malpractice involving shoddy research or data manipulation does occur in rare instances.
- Tenderpreneurship is often accomplished by overpricing and/or shoddy workmanship and/or excessive 'under the table' advances termed "commissions".
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