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Shoddy
"Shoddy" in a Sentence (14 examples)
His book is riddled with shoddy research.
If you call now and order immediately, you'll get double our shoddy rubbish for the same price!
Tom does shoddy work.
This work is shoddy.
His work is shoddy.
Tom's work is shoddy.
I've never seen this shoddy of an excuse in my life.
He was an unsophisticated boy, but the gift of sudden insight which is sometimes vouchsafed to children showed him all at once what shoddy humanity the quack was made of.
If the tradesmen's workmanship hadn't been so shoddy, there wouldn't have been any water damage.
If the tradesmen hadn't done such a shoddy job, there wouldn't have been any water damage.
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Do not settle for shoddy knives if you are serious about cooking.
Formerly, shoddy cloth was “used only for padding, and such like purposes, but now blankets, flushings, druggets, carpets, and table covers, cloth for pilot and Petersham great” coats, &c., are either wholly or partly made of shoddy, which, in fact, is “occasionally worn by everybody. The beautiful woollen table covers are made wholly of shoddy, being printed by aqua-fortis from designs drawn in London and Manchester, and cut on holly and other blocks, on the spot.”
Shoddy is a cloth made from worn woollen things, old stockings, druggets, etc., which were formerly only used for the production of inferior paper, wallpaper, etc., but which were more often thrown on the waste-heap. These odds and ends are now raw materials for inexpensive clothing fabrics. The woollen things are torn to pieces by a machine having spiked rollers (termed a devil), cleansed, and the fibre spun with a certain proportion of new wool, the yarn being afterwards woven into the full-bodied but flimsy fabric termed shoddy.
To fill contracts for hundreds of thousands of uniforms, textile manufacturers compressed the fibers of recycled woolen goods into a material called “shoddy”.
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