I took over a good-sized firearm retail store three months ago and have run into a lot of shoddy products. |
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Verbal aggression, insulting and rude behaviour, disregard for the rights of others, petty thieving and shoddy work were the norms. |
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It is abhorrent and deplorable both in its shoddy journalism and blatant personal assault on our artists. |
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Many years of shoddy work has resulted in the pathetic shape of city roads. |
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Many experts believe the toll would have been lower but for shoddy construction, corruption and government incompetence. |
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If they don't act, they get accused of tolerating racism and shoddy intellectual thinking. |
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Contractors in connivance with corrupt officials do shoddy work deliberately, so that they get a fresh contract soon for the job. |
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And get chummy with your local building inspector, whose job it is to spot shoddy workmanship. |
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Rather an abuse of parliamentary privilege to achieve a cheap and shoddy pay back for his mates. |
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That, given sufficient publicity some kind of audience will appeal for almost any event, no matter how shoddy or potentially immoral. |
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In short, while the proposal may have merit, the method of proposing it has been downright shoddy. |
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David thinks it's time to tear up the PC rule book and pull black men up on their shoddy behaviour. |
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Moreover, because everything was so public, the authorities began to look pretty shoddy. |
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We're not going to have the Government use shoddy, tawdry little tricks to drum up the notion of fear and then fail on competence. |
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Replacing cotton shoddy with this new fiber may help auto makers avoid the issue. |
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The multitouch is pretty shoddy, and the refresh rate is not too good on the screen. |
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Put vernacularly, the citizens of barter-addicted countries will inevitably grow disenchanted with shoddy and shabby goods delivered late. |
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More than a decade of chronic flooding has led residents to protest at what they see as shoddy workmanship and buck-passing. |
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Paradoxically, the stagey lighting, shoddy sets, breaks between shots, all create a hyper reality. |
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If this is one of those man-against-machine moments, the future of the human race is in pretty shoddy hands. |
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Countless runs were gifted away through shoddy fielding and innumerable dropped catches. |
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It is illustrative of Deacon's strength in the close analysis and exposure of shoddy arguments. |
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Because of their shoddy defense, the Colts have had to rely on outscoring opponents to win games, especially indoors. |
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Our guys earned that reputation with decades of cheap and shoddy workmanship even as the top-tier imports were training us to expect much better. |
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This shoddy production design just reeks of cheapness and gives the entire film yet another air of unbelievability. |
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Ten years ago, China cars were hobbled by shoddy quality, poor technology and little research and development in motor vehicles. |
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They know there's going to be a high demand for them, so they churn them out using shoddy materials. |
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In May, market traders were incensed to be accused of selling shoddy goods. |
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This is useful when there is a need to comment on a shoddy or incomplete job or task. |
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Deadly as the shoddy milk powder was, the tragedy was, nevertheless, not inevitable. |
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His efforts also saved countless lives by rooting out contractors using inferior materials and producing shoddy equipment. |
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His eyes wander evasively, he plays with his cigar and glances round a supposed movie studio that is nothing more than a shoddy mock-up. |
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There are also massive continuity errors and shoddy production values that aid a lazy script by writers with no interest in doing research. |
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Increasingly desperate methods are being used to make this shoddy solution of minimised continuity announcements seem effective. |
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As you say, almost all software vendors do very shoddy work, and most large systems are riddled with holes. |
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Modern books and CDs are often shoddy objects, victims of corporate economies. |
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The sets were shoddy, the costumes gaudy and sometimes absurd, and the music inappropriate. |
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They tire people out, wear them down, make them acceptant of shoddy workmanship or service. I'm impressed at the same time as I'm angry. |
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There was a shoddy wooden control tower, with a moth-eaten windsock and several obsolete instruments on it. |
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I love all kinds of films, except the plotless kind with unconvincing acting, shoddy editing and duff music played on synths. |
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The Klamath, sadly, are used to shoddy treatment. They don't even have a reservation. |
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A local police official blamed shoddy construction and the poor quality of the cement. |
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Thai motorists have a new ally in the fight against poor vehicle quality and shoddy after-sales service. |
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But, this is the story, once again, about how a perception gets started in the media thanks to shoddy reportage. |
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The royal assent to this shoddy measure is not a victory for the government, but a defeat for all the rest of us. |
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It is ludicrous in this day and age that people can advertise such clearly shoddy services, and get away with it. |
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The outbreak was blamed on shoddy backland development which had grown up to house the migrant poor who had drifted into the town. |
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That means challenging Scots to better themselves instead of meekly accepting shoddy and second-rate services. |
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I don't want to write anything shoddy or second-rate just because it will get on. |
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I guess this gives me a shoddy excuse to embark on a weeklong bender of hard drinking, dire self-examination and monstrous self-pity. |
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Under the good planks on the top of the pile in the timber yard were all the shoddy ones. |
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As has been pointed out, this is really a story of shoddy journalism and sensationalism, not the value of design in society per se. |
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, it seems older people are less tolerant of shoddy service than younger people. |
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Over the years, players were not recognised for their contributions and complained of shoddy treatment. |
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Letters to the editor and corrections are big black holes into which complaints about shoddy journalism disappear. |
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The preferred option being presented by the borough council is a shoddy deal. |
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We can't say much about your shoddy workmanship, your poor literacy skills or your goldfish-like imagination. |
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Those interests may be ill-informed, based on shoddy reasoning or false axioms, but none of that matters. |
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Normal market mechanisms were disrupted, agricultural production fell behind, and China's people exhausted themselves producing what turned out to be shoddy, unsalable goods. |
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They are vouching for Shadman, saying he is a scapegoat of a shoddy investigation. |
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Historically, it has a shoddy pedigree of corruption and death. |
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Earlier in the war we read stories of British soldiers being forced to buy their own items such as boots in order to replace the shoddy ones they had been issued with. |
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We won't be happy until we've got 400 cable or satellite or digital stations and we can watch the most ridiculous, amateurish, shoddy bits of nonsense. |
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The report was, in short, an incredibly shoddy piece of work. |
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Some of the stuff has been so shoddy and so sloppy that our soldiers are over there dying in the shower from electrocution. |
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It is time that divine help stepped in and coached Hollywood on the follies of shoddy impersonation, and even worse, blatant colloquialism of all verbal history. |
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They are the ones who need to apologize for such biased and shoddy work. |
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The levees failed because of shoddy maintenance by a federal agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. |
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The herd instinct and the lack of overseas investment opportunities in the 1980s caused developers to create a patchwork of shoddy, half-empty suburban malls. |
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But on a slow news day, when you're scratching around for something to fill the bulletin with, you decide to turn the shoddy release into 20 seconds of copy. |
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He compares his subject to shoddy construction, and that's an analogy we can work with, because in software we're working at the thrilling edge of language and craftsmanship. |
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It is worth remembering that the people who fought for liberation in the decades after the Second World War wanted what the developed world had, not shoddy cast-offs. |
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Both sides showed a glimmer of promise with the occasional attack, only to be let down by poor discipline, some shoddy handling and stout defence. |
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They have to put up with some shoddy sequels to groundbreaking originals. |
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Describing me, he refers to my shoddy suit and badly scuffed shoes. |
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Give It allows friends and relatives to donate a sum of money to a good cause instead of buying a shoddy piece of tat that's destined for the charity shop. |
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Corrupt authorities also gave permits for shoddy housing and other construction in the riverbed, enriching individual contractors at the expense of public safety. |
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Only the inevitable break-off and patch-up remain, and Petrie makes up for his shoddy handling of those crucial sequences by keeping them mercifully short. |
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The National Transportation Safety Board last year blamed shoddy maintenance for the failure of the aircraft's jackscrew. |
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The Jambos chief was stunned at the shoddy state of the facility and ordered a paint job. |
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Oliver Treadwell represents Miss Glasgow's apotheosis of compromise, and the more shoddy in the unflickering light of his wife's devotion. |
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Since I only have a shoddy understanding of the internet, obviously I need to be educated, eh? Educamate me Mr. Man. |
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Their attempt to Bollywoodise Stepmom to suit the palate of morally-sensitive Indian audiences is shoddy. |
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But even by its usual shoddy standards, the decision to award the 2022 World Cup to the desert sheikdom of Qatar beggars belief. |
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It also led to the government prohibiting the construction of shoddy housing by building contractors. |
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Newspapers pointed at greedy contractors who used shoddy materials, slipshod methods and the help of corrupt officials to bypass building codes. |
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Their shoddy defense was even worse than the last time they were here wearing earflaps and blowing warm breath on their hands in 40-degree weather. |
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The mills in the Upper Calder Valley specialised in cotton weaving, with some cotton spinning, while those in the lower part of the valley specialised in wool and shoddy. |
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Do not settle for shoddy knives if you are serious about cooking. |
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Matching the sidewalk upon which they've been piled, the bricks have a shoddy photo-realism about them quite at odds with the idealized structure behind them. |
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In 1609, he complained of the VOC's shoddy corporate governance. |
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Nine out of 10 towns are plagued by travelling salesmen linked to foreign criminal gangs selling shoddy toys, clothes and jewellery, often by intimidation. |
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