(1) Many experts believe the toll would have been lower but for shoddy construction, corruption and government incompetence.

(2) David thinks it's time to tear up the PC rule book and pull black men up on their shoddy behaviour.

(3) We can't say much about your shoddy workmanship, your poor literacy skills or your goldfish-like imagination.

(4) There are cotton shoddy mats and foams and absorbers.

(5) They're not the rather shoddy efforts that are made today.

(6) They are the ones who need to apologize for such biased and shoddy work.

(7) If they don't act, they get accused of tolerating racism and shoddy intellectual thinking.

(8) Contractors in connivance with corrupt officials do shoddy work deliberately, so that they get a fresh contract soon for the job.

(9) Over the years, players were not recognised for their contributions and complained of shoddy treatment.

(10) Rather an abuse of parliamentary privilege to achieve a cheap and shoddy pay back for his mates.

(11) The preferred option being presented by the borough council is a shoddy deal.

(12) It is abhorrent and deplorable both in its shoddy journalism and blatant personal assault on our artists.

(13) Describing me, he refers to my shoddy suit and badly scuffed shoes.

(14) 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.

(15) The report was, in short, an incredibly shoddy piece of work.

(16) Many years of shoddy work has resulted in the pathetic shape of city roads.

(17) Letters to the editor and corrections are big black holes into which complaints about shoddy journalism disappear.

(18) Unfortunately the problem of shoddy workmanship continues even today.

(19) I love all kinds of films, except the plotless kind with unconvincing acting, shoddy editing and duff music played on synths.

(20) Corrupt authorities also gave permits for shoddy housing and other construction in the riverbed, enriching individual contractors at the expense of public safety.