Tom Hodgkinson

Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.

British Writer

Margery Allingham

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

English Writer

Eddie Redmayne

I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.

English Actor

Juan Cole

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.

American Educator

Jen Lancaster

The first 'Wii Fit' games I tried were the slalom and ski jumping. I believe my spectacular failures here had more to do with the board resting on thick carpet than my shoddy balance.

American Author

Bear Grylls

I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

British Explorer

Ruskin Bond

I suppose in the long run, it's the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there's enough room for all kinds of writing.

Indian Author

Gillian Armstrong

It's really actually been pretty shoddy and appalling, the amount of local content, Australian drama, on ABC TV.

Australian Director

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy.

English Musician

Jerry Della Femina

Business Week' is guilty of very shoddy reporting.

American Businessman

The word 'shoddy' implies disapproval and suggests that something is not just poor quality but also disappointingly so.

Negative Connotation

'Shoddy' can be used metaphorically to describe anything poorly done, not just physical items.

Non-Literal Use

Use 'shoddy' in informal situations, like when critiquing a friend's hasty work, not in formal analysis.

Casual Critique

As a noun, 'shoddy' refers specifically to material, highlighting a firm’s choice for cost over quality.

Material Meaning

Using 'shoddy' signals that a product is not just made with low-quality material but may also not perform well.

Product Quality

'Shoddy' has a background in textile industry, often implying deceptive practices in manufacturing.

Historical Use

In a modern context, using 'shoddy' could unintentionally imply an environmentally friendly choice.

Eco-Friendly Twist

Be careful; today, using 'shoddy' might not communicate historical meaning without further explanation.

Avoid Misleading

 And the old synonym switcheroo in which plagiarists utilize a thesaurus as their main weapon. By substituting a synonym for nearly every word in the document and leaving the sentence structure and order of the ideas the same, plagiarists give legitimate paraphrasing a very bad name. Shoddy paraphrasing is also a key part

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 a great graphic design school. And here's this, like, dirty, kind of, shoddy, kind of, dark computer room. And I began to wonder, Is this the goal? Is this what we want, you know? And also, I began to be fascinated by machines -- you know, like copy machines -- and so this is actually in Basel.

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 had witnessed some pretty shoddy marksmanship on the battlefield. So in an attempt to prepare their men for any future conflicts, they founded the National Rifle Association to promote rifle practice. In short, the Second Amendment was written to ensure

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 So how come the conversations are so different? You could actually ask this question, not just about countries, but about just about everyone. The auto companies that put safety first and the ones that don't bother to recall their shoddy cars

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 side of the world those vehicles are are a pain in the backside if I'm honest they really are not easy to keep running mechanic on that side of the world is shoddy who's also a magician this is somehow keeping those vehicles living I

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 I'm a professional troublemaker. As my job is to critique the world, the shoddy systems and the people who refuse to do better,