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shoddy

noun

1 shoddy

Reclaimed wool fiber.

Roget 645: inutility; uselessness etc. adj.; inefficacy, futility; ineptitude, inaptitude; unsubservience; inadequacy etc. (insufficiency) 640; inefficiency, ... show more

Dutch: kunstwol, scheurwol

adjective

1 shoddy

Made of inferior workmanship and materials.

synonyms: cheapjack, tawdry.

Roget 812b: worthless, valueless; useless.    [of low value] cheap, shoddy; slapdash.    inexpensive etc. 815.   

2 shoddy

Unethical or dishonest:
— Shoddy business practices.

synonyms: dirty, sordid.


Moby thesaurus: NG, abject, abominable, affected, apocryphal, arrant, artificial, assumed, atrocious, awful, base, bastard, beastly, beat-up, bedraggled, beggarly, beneath contempt, blameworthy, blowzy, bogus ... show more.

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