Example sentences for: shoddy

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

  • Another reminder of how shoddy small-time journalism can be comes with the NYT 's report on the sudden departure of The Oklahoman 's executive editor, apparently for displeasing local behemoth the Kerr-McGee Corporation with a story about the death of Karen Silkwood, a would-be whistleblower against the company.

  • The cover story castigates the International Olympic Committee for shoddy drug testing, a bigger scandal, the story says, than the ongoing host-site bribery imbroglio.

  • The NYT front weighs in with the second part of its series airing charges that Operation Smile, a charity that sends plastic surgeons to poor countries to do pro bono facial operations on deformed children, is guilty of shoddy medical practices due to an emphasis on volume and publicity.

  • Critics have three main complaints: 1) his shoddy economics (see Paul Krugman in the Washington Post and in Slate); 2) his tired prescriptions--regulation, taxation, and protectionism; 3) his continued bashing of the Federal Reserve Board (a repetition of the theme of his 799-page Secrets of the Temple ). "This is a book that graduate students and coffeehouse dissidents everywhere will enjoy," says Mead.

  • The further one reaches ahead in time with a set of forecasts, the greater the margin for error, since the fan of projections widens")--not to mention the typos, factual errors, and shoddy copy-editing of the new foreword.


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