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
- I find the quote to be shoddy.
- These are the shoddy translations.
- The work the IPCC has done is shoddy.
- The lyrics are shoddy and should be removed.
- Examples of the bias and shoddy research abound.
- The work that the organization has done is shoddy.
- However, the quality of the writing is shoddy and inconsistent.
- However, the shoddy construction causes the pod to fall into a volcano.
- I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.