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Значения термина jerry-built на английском

Of inferior workmanship and materials.

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Examples for "shoddy"
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Social work and social workers often receive shoddy treatment from the media.
The Guardian
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His words were widely seen as justification for illegal and shoddy construction.
Reuters
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The problem is not that Beck sends people to a shoddy company.
Tears of a clown: glenn beck and the tea bagging of america
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That disaster fueled anger over reports of shoddy construction, among other shortcomings.
Reuters
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He said WaMu made hundreds of billions of dollars in shoddy loans.
Reuters
Использование термина jerry-built на английском
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It was, I perceive, a jerry-built scheme, run up at short notice.
The Secret Places of the Heart
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Tells about other features of Koch's jerry-built scheme for closing the budget gap.
The new yorker
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Properly constructed buildings held firm, while jerry-built structures collapsed with the most appalling consequences.
The Irish Times
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The jerry-built home of the Early Bungalow Period stands up bravely under the Mortgage.
Ade's Fables
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General Headquarters had been established in a house near by, a middle-class, flamboyant, jerry-built affair.
"Contemptible", by "Casualty"
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Cardiff have been a vigorous, jerry-built Premier League team.
The Guardian
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The semi-suburban towns stretched forth long, rawly-red arms of ugly, little, jerry-built streets and terraces.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
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Why shouldn't creeds totter when they are jerry-built creeds?
This Simian World
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Then the very walls began to fall apart, as though it were all jerry-built junk.
Labyrinth
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It was one of those dreadful jerry-built houses which, while they are still new, look old.
The Beetle: A Mystery
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Only automatons will live in a jerry-built cottage in a modern town and pay heavily for the privilege.
Nonsenseorship
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A cord led from the computer to a jerry-built device that projected them in 3-D onto the ceiling.
Relentless
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The bungalow was a very solid one, but the partition walls of the rooms were almost jerry-built in their flimsiness.
The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories:...
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It only needed a spear-point to burst the jerry-built dam and let the flood through....
Mr. Standfast
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A jerry-built world, apparently.
All Roads Lead to Calvary
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The chatelaine of a jerry-built villa, who is pleased to consort with anybody except servants and the class below servants, is another.
Over the Fireside with Silent Friends