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Definition of Shoddiest
1. shoddy [adj] - See also: shoddy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoddiest
Literary usage of Shoddiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"... were always the best he was capable of receiving; 'and sometimes, in his
impatience, he treated them more cavalierly than even the shoddiest deserved. ..."
2. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1918)
"... teachers might make school dramatics an immense power for good instead of a
tenth-rate imitation of our shoddiest commercial stages. ..."
3. A Vagabond Journey Around the World: A Narrative of Personal Experience by Harry Alverson Franck (1911)
"The recruit receives a uniform of the shoddiest material once a year, and an
allowance of about two cents a day. What the allowance will not cover, ..."
4. Hard Tack and Coffee by John D. Billings (2001)
"the shoddiest description, and not worth it. In symmetry, they were like an elbow
of stove-pipe; nor did the likeness end here, for, while the stove-pipe is ..."
5. The Biology of Death: Being a Series of Lectures Delivered at the Lowell by Raymond Pearl (1922)
"... but it is equally ready to use the shoddiest of endoderm provided it will hold
together just long enough to get the machine by the reproductive period. ..."
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