Shoddy Example Sentences

Shoddy Example Sentences

Definition:
: a reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo
: a fabric often of inferior quality manufactured wholly or partly from reclaimed wool
: inferior, imitative, or pretentious articles or matter
: pretentious vulgarity
: cheaply imitative
: hastily or poorly done : INFERIOR
: SHABBY, DISREPUTABLE
: badly made or done


Synonyms:
discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, ignominious, infamous, notorious, shady, shameful, shy, unrespectable. poor-quality, inferior, second-rate, third-rate, cheap, cheapjack, trashy, jerry-built; informaltacky, chintzy, rubbishy, junky, tinpot, cheapo, cheesy, schlocky, low-rent, careless, slapdash, sloppy, slipshod, crude;
negligent, cursory


They gave a shoddy performance.

We're not paying good money for shoddy goods.

The shoddy porch collapsed one day after it was built.

As soon as the judges heard the young woman’s shoddy performance, they voted her out of the competition.

The shoddy toy was broken when it arrived in the mail.

Because of shoddy accounting practices, our firm is being audited.

I refuse to pay the plumber for such a shoddy job!

He accused the garage of shoddy workmanship on the bodywork.

I'm normally quick to complain about shoddy service.

It is a fairly shoddy way to treat an employee.

I always complain about bad service or shoddy goods.

He was accused of shoddy workmanship.

The shoddy performance of the networks and cable news channels is indefensible.

Blame for shoddy work is frequent.

He called for checks to discover whether corrupt officials are being bribed to connive in shoddy construction.

They refused him sick pay when he was off ill, which is a shoddy way to treat an employee.

I took over a good-sized firearm retail store three months ago and have run into a lot of shoddy products.

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

Some patients have disappeared from the system because of shoddy record-keeping.

You can make shoddy products, or you can make high-quality ones that people want.

Glad that other people have picked up on the shoddy journalism in this article.

Her art work didn't inspire me,it was rather shoddy.

Besotted Example Sentences

Besotted Example Sentences

Definition:
: blindly or utterly infatuated
: intoxicated or stupefied especially with drink
: to be smitten, strongly infatuated, in love with to the point that one feels as if they are drunk or intoxicated
: obsessed

synonyms: infatuated with, smitten with, in love with, head over heels in love with, obsessed with; doting on, greatly enamored of; informalswept off one's feet by, crazy about, mad about, wild about, carrying a torch for, gaga about/for/over, stuck on, gone on


The husband seems besotted with his wife and horribly jealous of the bird she's protecting.

We issued into an empty street through a half-open door, staggering like besotted revellers.

When news of their engagement broke, the besotted couple was enjoying a break in the Bahamas.

He became besotted with his best friend's sister.

I have known my wife for five years, but I am as besotted with her today as I was the moment I first saw her.

The besotted mother treated her child like a princess, despite the fact that she risked spoiling her.

Tim is a besotted basketball fan who dreams of playing for the Knicks.

Laura is besotted with her husband to the point that become frantic when he comes home late from work.

Whiffing my Aunts freshly backed loaves of bread while still in the oven, I was besotted by the smell.

Besotted by wine, Tyrone becomes stone drunk every time he attends a wedding.

He is besotted by her youth and beauty.

They had one date and he was utterly besotted.

The stories had besotted her mind with fear and superstition.

Unencumbered Example Sentences

Unencumbered Example Sentences

Definition:
: not having any burden or impediment
: free of debt or other financial liability
: you're free of baggage: either you literally don't have a lot of stuff to carry, or you're emotionally care-free
: free of to move forward or advance


Synonyms: burdenless, unburdened


Because she had her official transcripts, the woman was unencumbered to move on to any college she wanted.

The program’s funds were unencumbered and the director was able to spend the money on anything that was needed.

After the broken-down car was moved out of the road, the street was unencumbered and other motorists could drive past.

The inmate has been released from prison and is free to live an unencumbered lifestyle if he stays out of trouble.

Camp-life makes me feel fancy-free and unencumbered, since there are no rules or responsibilities in the woods.

Unencumbered by the demands of the mass market, modern architects were free to express their aesthetics in state-financed housing projects.

When you want to try all manner of wicked and wild moves on the surfboard, you need a good pair of freestyle board shorts to let you do whatever you want while feeling completely unencumbered.

If your gold is unencumbered it means that the gold is subject to physical delivery at any time and is not influenced by the financial abilities of the storage provider.

Her photographs have the look and feel of mere snapshots, as unmediated realism, unencumbered by artifice and self-conscious construction.

A company's unencumbered view of its supply chain provides a competitive advantage by being able to react to constantly changing requirements.

He had abandoned that deep melancholy and sadness, and he felt himself much lighter and unencumbered.

The plaintiff still holds all the shares as his own absolutely unencumbered property.

The way to ensure that there aren't hungry people in the world is to give peasants land, unencumbered by debt peonage.

Quiddity Example Sentences

Quiddity Example Sentences




Definition:

: whatever makes something the type that it is : essence
: the inherent nature or essence of someone or something.
: a distinctive feature; a peculiarity.
: an odd or peculiar habit
: the quality or qualities that make a thing what it is

Synonyms: crotchet, curiosity, eccentricity, erraticism, idiosyncrasy, individualism, kink, mannerism, oddity, peculiarity, quip, quirk, singularity, tic, trick, twist, being, essence, essentiality, nature, quintessence, soul, stuff, substance


Rembrandt's genius was his unparalleled ability to render a person's quiddity in a single portrait.

The quiddity of motherhood was reflected in Ms. Dowling because she was always baking cookies and tending to her child’s needs.

The actual quiddity of his leadership skills shined through when Timothy was able to easily convince a crowd of people about his viewpoint.

The stout and prestigious photograph of the prominent soldier showed the quiddity of his power.

When someone’s first baby is born, they experience the true quiddity of life because they know this was meant to be.

Even though the boy always lied, he actually realized the quiddity of each lie that he told.

Coeval Example Sentences

Definition
: of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration
: similar in age or length of time
: having the same age or date of origin
: a person of roughly the same age as oneself

Synonyms of coeval. coetaneous, coexistent, coexisting, coextensive, coincident, coincidental, concurrent, contemporaneous, contemporary, coterminous, simultaneous, synchronic, synchronous.




Once Jenny and I realized our parties were coeval, I decided to host my event on another day.

As soon as I get on campus, I plan on requesting a schedule change because two of my classes are coeval.

It’s impossible for me to attend both of my children’s events because they are coeval and occurring at the same time.

Since my sister and I are twins, we have coeval birthdays.

The detective knew the eight murders were related because of the coeval fact they occurred during the same time period.