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shoddy

[shod-ee]

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adjective

of poor quality or inferior workmanship: a shoddy bookcase.

intentionally rude or inconsiderate; shabby: shoddy behavior.

noun

a fibrous material obtained by shredding unfelted rags or waste. Compare mungo.

anything inferior, especially a handmade item or manufactured product.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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Origin:
1825–35; origin uncertain

Related forms

shod·di·ly, adverb

shod·di·ness, noun

half-shod·dy, adjective

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Some of the companies have been criticized for overcharging, shoddy work and incomplete projects.

No, no information of other scholars involved, and the emails was written in pretty shoddy language.

Chinese goods are held up as examples of shoddy work.

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Some of the companies have been criticized for overcharging, shoddy work and incomplete projects.

No, no information of other scholars involved, and the emails was written in pretty shoddy language.

Chinese goods are held up as examples of shoddy work.

And in the lab, these five-legged spiders built shoddy webs.

It¿s not that the work was shoddy or came out of left field.

The man whose son had a formaldehide smell was due to his poor shopping and shoddy research.

Shoddy equipment, questionable billing practices and suspicious hiring.

Knox's lawyers accused investigators of shoddy police work and tampering with the crime scene.

Department data is notoriously shoddy and always corrected following official release.

Avoid boots with padding inside, a sure sign of shoddy construction.

The dire need for housing during recent rapid urbanization had encouraged fast, shoddy construction in thousands of new buildings.

Distorting anyone's words via the use of ellipses is dishonest and betrays a shoddy application of editorial standards.

It's clear now that shoddy construction played as big a role as the earthquake in this disaster.

Some experts have suggested shoddy cement work at the drill site as one possible cause of the blowout.

The accepted way of dealing with flawed and shoddy work is to ignore it, to not cite it.

The rebels are a shoddy lot who are likely, if they get into power, to be no nicer than what went before.

The department has come under criticism for shoddy accounting practices and for falling short on the needs of veterans.

Morton said the shoddy computer parts were never used.

After such deluges, the city's shoddy uneven pavements become lakes that need to be painstakingly tiptoed around.

But even by the shoddy standards of the notoriously-lax birthplace of the atomic bomb, this latest incident is a whopper.

Geter's arrest was a result of racism and shoddy police work.

The other main one, for me, is the whole shoddy way in which the case for war was made.

Instead all that's left is a somewhat interesting plot that falls flat in between shoddy gameplay and ugly visuals.

There is no controversy in saying that shoddy infrastructure is holding the continent back.

It's not much more than four shoddy trailer-home walls and a shelf lined with more than a hundred books.

Their quality varies widely and many are lousy, so some unlucky kids get a shoddy education.

It also has a shoddy touch-screen that you have to press down on really hard.

Chinese shoppers are used to being sold shoddy goods backed by dodgy guarantees.

All this has made it harder for merchants to rip consumers off or sell them shoddy merchandise.

Shoddy construction is one of the deprivations of poverty.

Although there have certainly been improvements, those living without jobs in shoddy homes in poor black townships need more.

But brands were devalued with shoddy and inappropriate products.

Substandard design, inadequate materials and shoddy construction probably contributed.

If the shoddy students slack off, that's their choice, their grade.

But even by the shoddy standards of the notoriously-lax birthplace of the.

Forensic evidence is often the product of shoddy scientific practices that should be upgraded, a draft report found.

Ambrose may have attempted to become prolific by producing shoddy work in the name of press and profits.

Krauss constructs his research methodologies with the same shoddy foundation that he displays here then he is not to be trusted.

These include singed power cables, defective thrust nozzles, and shoddy paneling.

He shies away from shoddy arguments that are simply populist, not from debating serious differences with critics his own size.

Someone with a track record of solid work may inspire more confidence than someone with a track record of shoddy work.

Over the last two years, however, serious allegations of shoddy medical practices.

Those who do their best to provide quality work are underbid by shoddy workmanship and low quality materials constantly.

Critics have charged that their scholarship is shoddy and.

Japanese firms are notorious for ignoring customers' complaints of shoddy workmanship and dismal after-sales.

Thousands of movies are haphazardly neglected, turning into vinegar in shoddy warehouses.

But decades of careless development and shoddy regulation have put the watershed at risk.

Bad judgment and shoddy data-processing and programming led more money to go astray.

Accountants have been accused of shoddy work in some highly visible financial fiascos.

He has pleaded not guilty and has said he is a scapegoat for shoddy medical practices at the hospital.

The scheme relies on doubtful reasoning by the banks and shoddy inspection by auditors.

Bush was standing up for the interests of doctors and insurers at the expense of patients who receive shoddy care or worse.

So is improving the shoddy education imparted in the region's schools and universities.

Against this shoddy tale the cast puts up a losing fight.

Goldstein had received shoddy care from the state's.

Putting wigs and dresses on chimps is no longer acceptable, nor are shoddy exhibits.

Giuliani said he had been told that the school's principal and others at the school believed that the project was shoddy.

Then there was a crucial typo and some shoddy referencing.

Shoddy care and the denial of care are unfortunately not unique to private companies.

Skeptics about global warming cite the investigation as evidence that shoddy science is raising undue alarms.

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World English Dictionary

shoddy (ˈʃɒdɪ)

—*adj* , -dier, -diest
1.	imitating something of better quality
2.	of poor quality; trashy
3.	made of shoddy material

—n , -dier, -diest, -dies
4.	a yarn or fabric made from wool waste or clippings
5.	anything of inferior quality that is designed to simulate superior quality

[C19: of unknown origin]

'shoddily

—*adv*

'shoddiness

—n

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Word Origin & History

shoddy

1862, "having a delusive appearance of high quality," from earlier noun meaning "wool made of woolen waste, old rags, etc." (1832), of uncertain origin.

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