substandard
IPA: sʌbstˈændɝd
adjective
- Of inferior quality; not meeting the minimum quality requirements.
- (linguistics, dated) Not conforming to the standard variety; nonstandard.
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Examples of "substandard" in Sentences
- "It was, ‘Do I continue in substandard living or move on into something more lucrative?’"
- Cylinders not meeting these requirements are often referred to as substandard or noncompliant.
- Your suggestion that they would be party to something substandard is baseless and wrong, and the sign of a sour disposition.
- Operating a business based on hiring and employing the lowest-cost worker, however, usually results in substandard products.
- "He wants to put what he calls substandard people into substandard housing," snapped Dick Lippert, the top enforcer of St. Paul's building codes.
- Workers and union organizers protesting what they call substandard wages and unfair labor practices at local public schools and universities by the international food-service giant
- However, Auckland engineer John Scarry, who has lobbied successive Governments about what he calls substandard practices in the industry, says the new regulatory system is superficial.
- County officials were forced to make a funding decision after Minor League Baseball Director Mark Scialabba sent a letter to Major League Baseball officials, outlining what he called substandard conditions at a stadium that continues to "deteriorate."
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