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n. Low quality wool.

n. A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woolen rags or the remnants of woolen goods, specif. those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woolen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woolen goods or worsted, -- a distinction often disregarded.

n. Artificial short-staple wool formed by tearing to pieces and disintegrating old woolen fabrics, as old clothes.

n. An East Indian plant, Ophiorhiza Mungos, whose roots are a reputed cure for snake-bites. See mongoos.

"What academics (mungo excepted) don't understand is that the elected officials/agency heads/bureaucrats do not have conferences and seminars on whether or how to appropriately exercise powers."

shoddy   

shoddy    noil