Example sentences for: shoddy

How can you use “shoddy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Even the conservative Weekly Standard faults Whitehead for shoddy scholarship and pop psychology.

  • The Boneless Pork Rib Shaped Patty is a shoddy imitation of McDonald's much beloved McRib.

  • This story shows that interpretation is all important, as in cheap meaning `inexpensive' to some people and `shoddy' to others.

  • The guidebook-to-destination theory is why I was so harsh yesterday on Frommer's shoddy survey of Chicago architecture (and for the record, it's a difference of 10 pages, not five, and 10 times the amount of detail).

  • The cab of taxicab is from cabriolet , a light passenger cart; and hack is hackney coach , a coach for hire, hackney or hack being a hired horse and by extension anything shoddy and overused, whence hack-word and hackneyed phrases.


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