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substandard

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[ UK /sˈʌbstændəd/ ]
[ US /səbˈstændɝd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. falling short of some prescribed norm
    substandard housing

How To Use substandard In A Sentence

  • If the system is treating holidays like weekends, then the risk of substandard care is greatly increased across the year. Times, Sunday Times
  • The quality control folders were identified as substandard in five of their six assessments (each folder had two peer and one external group assessments).
  • He said that many girls use substandard coloured contact lenses without knowing the negative effects like serious eye injuries and inflamed cornea.
  • Their six months of filming was distilled into a one hour programme trailed as ‘a damning catalogue of inefficiency, neglect and substandard treatment.’
  • Living conditions, such as substandard housing, have a major impact on health.
  • Thousands of people live in poorly maintained public housing or equally substandard private rental accommodation.
  • The Street Maintenance Division will patch large chuckholes to eliminate traffic hazards in substandard public streets and clean adjacent ditches, but will not resurface the street.
  • The National Transportation Safety Board on Friday released a metallurgical analysis of approximately 55 feet of pipe that appeared to rule out several possible causes of the pipeline failure, including corrosion or external blunt force, such as from a backhoe, and to suggest the blame could involve substandard welds. Pipeline-Blast Probe Finds Welding Flaws
  • These include substandard pay and benefits for new-hires, drastic givebacks in health and pension benefits, reductions in premium pay, and the gutting of work rules.
  • It had failed to prevent the builder of the flats from erecting a substandard structure…
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