(n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat.
(n.) A stupid, awkward, inefficient person.
Example Sentences:
(1) They’re throwing everything they’ve got at this and, while there are bound to be a few duffers in the mix, you can bet that your mum will end up loving at least one of them.
(2) The West End debut of Keira Knightley will irresistibly get all the headlines and shift a lot of the tickets, though the rest of the cast of The Misanthrope – including Damian Lewis, Dominic Rowan and Tara Fitzgerald – are not exactly duffers.
(3) For the first time in years, the BBC has taken the contest seriously, stung by criticism from viewers and the rest of the continent that despite the UK's musical heritage it ends up entering duffers.
(4) Asked if the children may go on an adventurous sailing-and-camping expedition, the absent father replies, heartlessly: "Better drowned than duffers if not duffers will not drown."
(5) When the New York Times reporter Don Van Natta Jr played with Clinton in 2000, the duffer-in-chief simply replayed any of his stray shots, leading Van Natta to conclude that "[Clinton] followed the rules .
(6) Hardly anybody eats the stuff beyond a few old duffers nostalgic for the bad old days when protein was scarce, and a few ridiculous rump-imperialist uyoku.
(7) As a joke doing the rounds in Delhi put it, the three national-party candidates were a Duffer, a Bluffer and a Muffler.
(8) My hunch is that the old, badly informed duffers at the top of the BBC who took this perverse decision have yet to actually sit through Sun, Sex & Suspicious Parents .
(9) What says "This is my world now, you past-it old duffer" more than being tossed your child's defunct smartphone?
(10) Precocious rapid sleep duffers from usual one in an inclusion into the dream content the experimental situations and their emotional saturation.
(11) Firebrand lawyer and human rights campaigner Asma Jahangir caused a sensation by delivering a television tongue-lashing against "duffer" generals who, she said, were more interested in running wedding halls than defending their territory.
(12) The duffer was Rahul Gandhi; the muffler referred to third-party leader Arvind Kejriwal's habit of wrapping himself in a scarf.
(13) Katie Allen (@KatieAllenGdn) Carney on review post forex rigging stories: we can't come out of this with a shadow of doubt about the integrity of the Bank of England March 11, 2014 George Mudie MP, though, isn’t impressed -- accusing Carney of acting like his predecessor Sir Mervyn King by passing the buck onto other people; either the ‘old duffers’ on the Bank’s Court, or to FCA boss Martin Wheatley.
(14) It's good of you to put on a much more lavish show for us than you did for that old duffer, Gordo.
(15) Louis van Gaal is a duffer all over again after supervising three defeats in a row – the light aeroplane on duty at Anfield might soon be back here at this rate – while Tony Pulis is a genius once more for all but securing safety for his side at the most intimidating of venues.
Substandard
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) For the CSI, the 49.4% of patients who worsened captured 70.6% of the potentially substandard care; for MedisGroups, the 35.6% of patients who worsened also encompassed 70.6% of the problematic cases.
(2) The improvement was distributed throughout the community and included those who were substandard at baseline.
(3) Geographical location of Manus Island The immigration minister, Tony Burke, who recently moved women and children off Manus Island because of substandard conditions, said families would not be sent to the centre until it was upgraded.
(4) He focuses on counterfeit and substandard medicines and the role of intellectual property and trade law on access to medicines in less developed countries.
(5) As part of an interdisciplinary study of medical injury and malpractice litigation, we estimated the incidence of adverse events, defined as injuries caused by medical management, and of the subgroup of such injuries that resulted from negligent or substandard care.
(6) It is hypothesized that the substandard scores of the doctors do not reflect inadequate competence, but are a result of the difference between competence and performance.
(7) It wasn’t until three substandard kit contracts later in my career that I realised just because you are living your dream, it doesn’t mean you can’t want more from it financially.
(8) Scrutiny of the approach suggests that the psychopathology of these patients was inextricably intertwined with issues of racism, unemployment, poverty, and substandard housing.
(9) Farmworkers live and work under substandard conditions that place them at increased risk of pesticide-related illness.
(10) Some women still report receiving substandard care and some advances have actually created emotional strains for women.
(11) At present, there is no mechanism in place for denial of payment for substandard care, although proposed regulations were published in the January 18, 1989 Federal Register.
(12) We herein report a study which suggests that substandard obstetric care bears little relationship to the etiology of cerebral palsy.
(13) This preliminary study suggests that examining changes in illness severity may be a useful screen for substandard hospital care, but its utility could vary by condition and by how quality problems are defined.
(14) Consequences are: an acceptance of substandard care and a diversion of attention from therapeutic work.
(15) Our findings suggest that the uninsured are at greater risk for suffering medical injury due to substandard medical care.
(16) Substandard ventilation and the recirculation of air in many contemporary buildings has also been implicated in widespread nosocomial transmission.
(17) "We can't just stand by and do nothing when schools are substandard year after year.
(18) Diversiform somatizers had a higher risk of alcohol abuse, psychiatric hospitalization, and substandard income than either asthenic somatizers or non-somatizers.
(19) This is particularly the case where the enhancement is regarded as a vanity or may be detrimental to health, as was the case with substandard silicon breast implants.
(20) Low energy (Le): substandard vs. High energy (He): standard).