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- adjective
superlative form ofshoddy : mostshoddy .
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Examples
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Of course, looked at one way, this is escapism of the shoddiest kind.
A Conversation with Kazuo Ishiguro about Never Let Me Go 2010
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A company takes their shoddiest piece of junk and puts it in a pink or pastel case and feigns shock when the crap doesn't sell.
15 Annoying Things Most Girlfriends Do (That You Have to Put Up With) | Manolith 2010
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A ramshackle five-bedroom ranch in Sarasota, Florida, it stood out as maybe the shoddiest structure in a subdivision of stucco-over-block single-story homes on quarter-acre lots parceled off and built in the sixties and seventies.
Freud’s Blind Spot Elisa Albert 2010
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As we noted yesterday, an effort to prove the "all-around crazy" part employed one of the shoddiest, most tendentious opinion polls we've ever seen.
Hot, or Not? James Taranto 2010
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Swan produced some of the shoddiest-looking magazines and books imaginable on whatever paper he could find.
Kay Hammond Davies Steve 2010
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NEW YORK -- As investigators in Massachusetts considered charging Wall Street firms for their role in the financial collapse, they focused on Goldman Sachs because it had bundled and sold the shoddiest of subprime mortgage loans, setting up the housing market for a greater fall by continuing to sell shaky securities even as other banks withdrew.
Along with SEC, other investigators and suits may target Goldman Sachs 2010
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The CEA report may be the shoddiest piece to come out of CEA in 60 years.
Free Lunch!, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Do you not think they should take into account all the research, even the bits that disagree with their desired outcomes, rather than cherry pick and misquote the shoddiest produced "evidence" that by a statistical quirk or anomaly confirms their prejudices as evidenced by the "plethora"?
The BCA's Reply Jack of Kent 2009
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This is an example of the shoddiest of all writing, exemplified by blogs.
Questions We Thought, But Didn’t Ask, in 2007 - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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The leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, David Trimble, described the 175-point document "as the shoddiest piece of work I've seen in public life."
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