shoddy

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To illustrate their points, they included snapshots of singed power cables, partially torn-off sections of paneling and defective parts of thrust nozzles in the engines as evidence of what they described as a shoddy work ethic at Airbus and its suppliers.

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  1. adjective Made of or containing inferior material.
  2. adjective Of poor quality or craft.
  3. adjective Rundown; shabby.
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  • (Updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV - Update V) Jeffrey Rosen and The New Republic really are owed a debt of gratitude for shining a light on how shoddy, arrogant, non-responsive and deliberately misleading so much of our establishment "journalism" really is.
  • Edison was intolerant of sham and shoddy, and nothing would satisfy him that could not stand cross-examination by microscope, test-tube, and galvanometer. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • 'West African shoddy, at a guess, but boil it, oil it and give it a light coat of boot blacking and no man could tell, eh? —  Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell
  • His work was sometimes shoddy, and he had his share of scuffs with the law. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 06 - December 2000
  • Perhaps it is all a little cheap and shoddy, and few, if any, of the so-called improvements will last any considerable time; and yet it is interesting, if only as an object lesson in misapplied energy. —  Diary of a Soldier of Fortune
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ill-fitting ·  threadbare ·  homespun ·  showy ·  tawdry ·  secondhand ·  second-rate ·  meretricious ·  khaki ·  dowdy ·  drab ·  shabby
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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Not found in early use, and presumably orig. a factory word; in this view it is possible to consider shoddy as a dial. form (diminutive or extension) of dial. shode, literally ‘shedding,’ separation, shoddy being orig. made of flue or fluff ‘shed’ or thrown off in the process of weaving, rejected threads, etc.: see shode, shed, n.
  2. from shoddy, n.
 

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