low-quality

[loh-kwol-i-tee]

adjective

1. substandard; of inferior quality: Repairs made with low-quality parts are cheaper, but they won’t last long.

   It’s hard to make a delicious dish when you start with low-quality ingredients.

   Repairs made with low-quality parts are cheaper, but they won’t last long.

Word History and Origins

Origin of low-quality¹

First recorded in 1815–20; low ¹ ( def. ) + quality ( def. )

Example Sentences

After a contentious discussion that at times referenced discredited theories, low-quality data and desperate pleas from physicians and patients to rely upon sound science, a key committee of the U.S.

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Fellow media journalists and I were sceptical - surely YouTube wasn't television, but a place for low-quality home videos?

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Studies from Louisiana, where “low-quality private schools” have proliferated with the state’s blessing, as well as the District of Columbia and Indiana, show that students who participate in voucher plans do worse, especially in math, than their public-school peers.

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He also benefited from increased comfort with low-quality American baseballs and the pitch clock.

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New America, a liberal think tank that has tracked the growth of such courses, wrote in a recent report that the quality of online program managers “can be questionable. Students have complained of low-quality instruction and programs that do not fulfill the promises made by recruiters.”

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