shoddy

IPA: ʃˈɑdi

noun

  • A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.
  • (dated) Worthless goods.
  • (colloquial, dated) Vulgar pretence or sham.

adjective

  • Of poor quality or construction
  • (dated) pretentious, sham, counterfeit
  • (dated) ambitious by reason of newly-acquired wealth; nouveau riche
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Examples of "shoddy" in Sentences

  • He says earlier reports from the U.S. had been based on what he called shoddy intelligence.
  • She said it went to 'shoddy yards' - that's where the phrase shoddy clothing comes from - which were in Dewsbury.
  • I really am just complaining because i'd love to reduce my bills but my windows are so flippin shoddy and windows are so expensive. soldstatic ester
  • In two of the cases, Justice Stevens lashed out at the court's failure to condemn what he called shoddy work by defense lawyers in death penalty cases.
  • To illustrate their points, they included snapshots of singed power cables, partially torn-off sections of paneling and defective parts of thrust nozzles in the engines as evidence of what they described as a shoddy work ethic at Airbus and its suppliers.

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