shoddy

The levees failed because of shoddy maintenance by a federal agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Society's shoddy geometry gives a short-cut for "my lady's maid" to become "my lady."

Mr. Spokesly was glad he had not been permitted to pay for the two bottles with their shoddy tinfoil and lying labels.

He had sacrificed his sleep—that was his suggestion—and he did not deserve to be put off with shoddy goods.

This material is shoddy, so to speak, and goes to pieces soon after it grows.

Shoddy apparel never is anything else but shoddy, and well might it proclaim the shoddy man.