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bodgery

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Clumsy or inelegant work.

uncountable

Examples

“As Andrew, in particular, began to work⟳ on renovation and improvement, his talk⟳ about this began to be peppered with references to 'bodgery' — 'When I look⟳ at it, all I see⟳ is bodgery', he says recurrently, with a mixture of exclamation and despair.”
“[…] deploying the deceits of 'facadism' (ashlar stone exterior layer with lath and plaster interiors) hiding the most terrible bodgery of poor brickwork, […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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