A shoddily built house. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a shoddy bookcase. ,shoddy behavior. From Dictionary.com.
Many of these just very shoddily constructed buildings. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 14, 2010] Reference
So, you're looking at kind of old, shoddily-built levees. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008] Reference
I traded gifts yesterday, but they were shoddily wrapped. From Wordnik.com. [christmas abroad - Anil Dash] Reference
It had a shoddily editedscreen shot in it, so I deleted it. From Wordnik.com. [It Really Was There] Reference
How do hair dressers get away with treating clients so shoddily?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
SEIU got the right to represent workers, if shoddily, and to get paid. From Wordnik.com. [Jamie Court: Internal Memos Show How Andy Stern And Union Sold Workers Out] Reference
He said, the cement was too soft, this building was shoddily constructed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 21, 2008] Reference
Developers would be traced and required to repair shoddily constructed units. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
She had slipped shoddily to the editing room floor, her singularity not needed. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke and Mirrors] Reference
George Will, Charles Krauthammer and John McLaughlin were shoddily treated, too. From Wordnik.com. [Washington's New Celebrities: An Exchange] Reference
Advertising often relies on shoddily reproduced Olympic logos and bland propositions. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Doctoroff: Brands in China: Incremental Progress in 2007] Reference
These aren't joked but cringe-worthy bits strong together shoddily and labled as "humor.". From Wordnik.com. ['Family Guy': Taking brave potshots at the defenseless] Reference
These same companies that build shoddily also were involved in the housing-mortgage crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Vote Yourself A Higher-Cost New Home] Reference
Students from lesser public schools were "absolutely thick" and "had been shoddily taught". From Wordnik.com. [Day 14 in the Big Grammar School Debacle] Reference
And this is just so shoddily put together that I can't believe anyone would take it seriously. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2002] Reference
There is no refuse removal and the tiny homes are shoddily built, letting in the rain and wind. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The market simply can't absorb the number of (shoddily produced) vehicles flooding the hinterlands. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Doctoroff: Chinese Godzillas? The Phantom Threat of PRC Brands] Reference
Oh, it is a real sad story, how shoddily their Schw'rmerei for Control was used by the folks in power. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
This building was shoddily constrcuted, local officials are on the take, and we want some accountability. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 21, 2008] Reference
Plan L will prevent the shoddily made, unsecurable computerized machines from being jammed down our throats. From Wordnik.com. [There's No Place Like Home: Plan L for NY Elections] Reference
But in any other service industry, if you treat your customers this shoddily, you'd soon be out of business. From Wordnik.com. [Columns in other papers] Reference
He can't be faulted for shoddily built levees, or a vacationing, clueless White House, or the Force of Nature. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans Blues] Reference
Give it 10 years, ethicists say, and brain tools will be used regularly — sometimes responsibly, often shoddily. From Wordnik.com. [Clive Thompson on Why the Next Civil Rights Battle Will Be Over the Mind] Reference
It was the release of the shoddily made yet brilliantly marketed film Hanuman (2005) that sparked the second wave. From Wordnik.com. [India's Suspended Animation (Industry)] Reference
As I said above, what turned me off the most about the movie was how shoddily made and poorly (overly) acted it was. From Wordnik.com. [intertribal: the good thing is, I kept thinking of movies I liked, not movies I hated] Reference
She glared at the fat back in the shoddily-fitting black coat, which looked as if a woman dressmaker had made it, with loathing. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
Meanwhile, most urban Chinese still live in small, shoddily built apartments that are shared among two or even three generations. From Wordnik.com. [Outspoken Real-Estate Executive Makes Few Friends Among the Public] Reference
However shoddily made machines is not the only problem that is clearly frustrating all the State Board of Election Commissioners. From Wordnik.com. [There's No Place Like Home: Plan L for NY Elections] Reference
The public, always willing to jump on any bandwagon, no matter how shoddily built or how absurd, went along for the (usual) ride. From Wordnik.com. [2009 October 19 « Mudpuddle] Reference
I have to respectfully disagree with Iain and CH on this as I believe he has been shoddily treated - but that isn't relevant here. From Wordnik.com. [Whose Hand Have You Refused to Shake?] Reference
(In reality, watchdog sites like Media Matters have documented loads of outrageous lies in Coulter's shoddily researched writings). From Wordnik.com. [Why Is The MSM Afraid Of Scrutinizing Rush Limbaugh?] Reference
She quietly prepared a review of the office operation, concluding in a written report that it was shoddily run and "overly pro-press.". From Wordnik.com. [Judgment Calls] Reference
Most will fail, stupefying audiences with basso-profundo voice-overs, shoddily reproduced Olympic logos and no meaningful proposition. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Doctoroff: Olympic Heat?] Reference
The plant is shoddily built and technically primitive, characterized by "scandalous malpractices" which have shaken public confidence. From Wordnik.com. ['Mother Country': An Exchange] Reference
Those shows demonstrated that there was a significant demand for this kind of stuff - even if PR did handle the arc stuff rather shoddily. From Wordnik.com. [The Arc of Truth: Part 3] Reference
Benigno's wholehearted love for Che and Fidel led him to volunteer for every shoddily put-together suicide mission his leaders dreamed up. From Wordnik.com. [Fidel in the Evening] Reference
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