Crossword-Solution: SHODDINESS
We have 4 clues for the answer “SHODDINESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Poor quality or workmanship | 1 answer |
| Slapdash result | 1 answer |
| the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better | 1 answer |
| bad form | 35 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SHODDINESS (5)
And a pitiful display it was, gaudy calicoes and flimsy flannels, the brilliance of whose colour was only equalled by the shoddiness of the material, cheap domestic blankets, half wool half cotton, prepared especially for the Indian trade.
Western governments, Western banks, Western businessmen and Western institutions were sucked into the maelstrom of money laundering, illicit trading, corruption, shoddiness and violence.
What can you say about a pulley--what _can_ you say? “The United Steel Frame Pulley--Oh Man, There's a Hog for Work!” Oliver turns the cheap phrase in his mind, hating its shoddiness, hating the fact that such shoddiness is the only stuff with which he can deal.
This superiority is only the more vividly revealed by the shop-worn shoddiness of most of his materials.
Howells are revealed once more in this story, in which Miss Hurst accepts the shoddiness of background which characterizes her literary types, and reveals the fine human current that runs beneath it all.
Quotes with SHODDINESS (2)
How good it is when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this is the dead body of a bird or pig; and again, that the Falernian wine is the mere juice of grapes, and your purple edged robe simply the hair of a sheep soaked in shell-fish blood! And in sexual intercourse that it is no more than the friction of a membrane and a spurt of mucus ejected. How good these perceptions are at getting to the heart …
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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Appears in: WP.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2001).