standardadjective

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deficiency in something
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intolerably
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substandard | American Dictionary

substandard
adjective
us/sʌbˈstæn·dərd/
below a satisfactory standard:
There’s plenty of substandard child care available.

Examples of substandard

substandard
The practitioner described sending a client to a social worker after determining from her intake interview that her pressing issue was substandard housing.
The evidence base for care of these diseases is strong, with well-developed guidelines and variable, often substandard care.
A substandard social position is created for these women when they lack knowledge about life beyond that of their families.
Even when drugs are available, weak regulatory capacity may mean that they are substandard or counterfeit, and that they are not rationally used.
To do this is to practice substandard medicine.
What comes to the fore is the minority status of these essentially oral languages that are usually branded as faulty or substandard.
This process was reinforced by the development of life insurance medicine, investigating differential life expectancies of substandard risks.
A homogeneous r. f. which is substandard is in fact standard.
In the nineteenth century the main thrust of standardising practices in life insurance was prohibitive: to exclude substandard applicants from insurance policies.
Today, it is difficult to find older people who live in substandard housing, or without a telephone, for example.
Unfortunately this paper did not give us an estimate of the proportion of these cases that were complicated by substandard care.
These investigators found that substandard care was associated with units delivering less than 500 babies per year.
Consider, for example, the conventional aspect of language: some level of "opting out" is possible and in fact quite familiar from substandard uses of language.
The way people stored water was classified as standard or substandard.
If a variety is not regarded as substandard and acquires a legitimate status, then it is certainly indigenized.
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