shoddy
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The island produces 40,000 barrels a day of low-quality crude, which is mostly used to power obsolete electricty plants that often fail because of shoddy maintenance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Anyone who has worked for a wage has shared space with someone whose work was so shoddy that it made you angry to receive the same salary at week’s end.
From Salon • Jan. 14, 2026
Yet they also had the sharpest production losses over the past two decades, partly due to routine water-flooding and shoddy maintenance.
From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026
However, it was deemed to be in too shoddy a state to rescue, prompting her to pivot to building her own abode.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 16, 2025
He had examined the equipment of the other Amer-ican crews and found it heavy, shoddy, old, and decrepit.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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