Fake (or sham; shoddy) and inferior goods
(slang) a merchant who deals in shoddy or inferior merchandise.
They make shoddy products. They treat their customers and their employees like shit.
But China's health system, though improving, is still shoddy by rich-world standards and slapdash about protecting patients' privacy.
We dealt powerful Blows to criminals engaging in illegal economic activities by investigating and prosecuting over 1.2 million cases of producing and marketing fake and shoddy goods.
At a time when big bonuses on Wall Street are once again expected to be plentiful, Ireland is reining in on bankers' bonuses as it deals with shoddy finances that nearly bankrupt the country.
My l4-year-old son, John, and I spotted the coat simultaneously. It was hanging on a rack at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass, crammed in with shoddy trench coats and an assortment of sad, woolen overcoats -- a rose among thorns.
counterfeit and shoddy(products)
But tied aid leads to shoddy work.
This is a shoddy piece of work; it's hardly presentable.
Producing and marketing counterfeit and shoddy goods, pyramid schemes and commercial fraud must be severely punished.
The overcoat he bought last month was shoddy, not only it was not wrinkle free,it got badly battered after just a few use.
Many people holding "No good goods cheaper, " the point of view, it's clear that high-quality and inexpensive goods, free of charge if you give him, he may suspect that you are fake and shoddy.
Most of digital product development is stuck in the first, second, or third step of this evolution, where design either plays no real role or it becomes a surface-level patch on shoddy interactions-"lipstick on the pig," as one of our clients once referred to it.
They rejected the shoddy ones.
Ioannidis's first targets were shoddy statistics used in early genome studies.
If discover fake and shoddy goods will fake a penalty ten, and carries on the corresponding wechat business titles.
It was hanging on a rack at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass, cra mmed in with shoddy trench coats and an assortment of sad, woolen overcoats — a rose among thorns.
shoddy merchandise
Too often universities offer their paying guests a shoddy service.
He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career.
Housing Minister Jiang Weixin on Friday announced a probe had been launched into whether shoddy work linked to corruption was to blame for the large number of schools toppled.
Counterfeit and shoddy products; fake and shoddy goods
Crack down on such illegal acts as manufacturing and marketing fake(counterfeit) or shoddy goods
Doan, whom I spoke with extensively in April about the effect of CCD on his business, told me, “many of us [beekeepers] are very upset with the shoddy research that was done with the Times story.”
I am afraid to buy counterfeit and shoddy products.
For now, foreigners think that its home-grown electronics and cars are cheap and shoddy, as Japan's were thought to be 40 years ago.
The government departments will conduct watchdog surveys for shoddy and inferior goods
fake and shoddy products
The women-they were mainly women-jostling round his stall, picking over his shoddy wares, would sometimes run a finger round the rim of a cup or hold it knowingly up to the light as if to test its luster, and plates were invariably turned upside down in search of china marks.
The market was glutted with shoddy goods.
Most blacks still live in shoddy shacks or bungalows without proper sanitation in poor crime-ridden townships outside the main cities.
Then opened the yellow head page, and fate bound it very shoddy. With tears, I had to admit it once I read and read it again.
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