shoddy

Within the Hellespont we saw where the original first shoddy contract mentioned in history was carried out, and the "parties of the second part" gently rebuked by Xerxes.

Luckily, too, or else there would have been more shoddy reputations for first-rate seamanship.

It was all false, insincere, shoddy; and yet no one was more honest, sincere, and frank than Dirk Stroeve.

The Professor, dressed in his only suit of shoddy tweeds, but flapping to and fro on the bare boards a pair of incredibly dilapidated slippers, had thrust his hands deep into the overstrained pockets of his jacket.

All the clothing that was to be had in the stores was made of cotton and shoddy, which is made by tearing old clothes to pieces and weaving the fiber again.

But a shoddy lady writer and a journalist who had murdered his wife in the sight of God--they should enter no villa at his introduction.

She wears a shoddy black coat that reaches nearly to her knees and is shaped to her waist.

His reticence was not entirely the shoddy article that a business life promotes, the reticence that pretends that nothing is something, and hides behind the DAILY TELEGRAPH.

Residents of the semi-arid area have now been left without a source of water for irrigation and domestic use as they relied on the dam.The residents accused the contractor of doing a shoddy job on the dam that was almost filled to capacity, saying repairs need to be done before the end of the ongoing rains.

Tong'i said that it is through the monitoring that contractors can avoid doing shoddy jobs even after they are paid their dues.

CHINESE tech firm Huawei is "shoddy" and has a lot of work to do to improve its cybersecurity, a top UK spook has said.

A council has blasted shoddy contractors after they left wonky road markings on a smart residential street.