What is the meaning of shoddy?

noun

  • Reclaimed wool fiber.

adjective

  • Cheap and shoddy."cheapjack moviemaking... That feeds on the low taste of the mob- Judith Crist
  • Of inferior workmanship and materials.
    • usage: "mean little jerry-built houses"
  • Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently.
    • usage: "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"
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