Shoddy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Made of or containing inferior material.
  • adj. Of poor quality or craft.
  • adj. Rundown; shabby.
  • adj. Dishonest or reprehensible: shoddy business practices.
  • adj. Conspicuously and cheaply imitative.
  • n. Woolen yarn made from scraps or used clothing, with some new wool added.
  • n. Cloth made from or containing such yarn.
  • n. Something of inferior quality; a cheap imitation.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Being of poor quality or construction
  • n. A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A fibrous material obtained by “deviling,” or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See mungo.
  • n. Fluffy, fibrous waste from wool carding, worsted spinning, or weaving of woolens.
  • n. A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy.
  • adj. Made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; ; hence, colloquially, not genuine; sham; pretentious.
  • adj. of poor quality or inferior workmanship.
  • adj. visibly worn or damaged from use; shabby.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A woolen material felted together, composed of old woolen cloth torn into shreds, the rejected threads from the weaving of finer cloths, and the like. Com-pare mungo.
  • n. The inferior cloth made from this substance; hence, any unsubstantial and almost worthless goods.
  • n.
  • n. A person or thing combining assumption of superior excellence with actual inferiority; pretense; sham; vulgar assumption.
  • Made of shoddy: as, shoddy cloth. Hence Of a trashy or inferior character: as, shoddy literature.
  • Pretending to an excellence not possessed; pretentious; sham; counterfeit; ambitious for prominence or influence not deserved by character or breeding, but aspired to on account of newly acquired wealth: as, a shoddy aristocracy. See I., 2.
  • To convert into shoddy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
  • n. reclaimed wool fiber
  • adj. of inferior workmanship and materials
  • adj. cheap and shoddy
  • Equivalent
    dishonorable    dishonest    weak    inferior   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    wool   
    Cross Reference
    shoddy fever    mungo    rag and shoddy    noil   
    Variant
    shoddiest    shoddier    mungo   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sham    pretentious    shabby    pretended   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ahmadi    Mahdi    body    disembody    embody    roddy    waddie    waddy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ill-fitting    threadbare    homespun    showy    tawdry    secondhand    second-rate    meretricious    khaki    dowdy