Shoddy

What do we mean by shoddy?

Made of or containing inferior material. adjective

Of poor quality or craft. adjective

Rundown; shabby. adjective

Dishonest or reprehensible. adjective

Conspicuously and cheaply imitative. adjective

Woolen yarn made partially or entirely from scraps or used clothing. noun

Cloth made from or containing such yarn. noun

Something of inferior quality; a cheap imitation. noun

To convert into shoddy.

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. noun

The inferior cloth made from this substance; hence, any unsubstantial and almost worthless goods. noun

A person or thing combining assumption of superior excellence with actual inferiority; pretense; sham; vulgar assumption. noun

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.

Made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; ; hence, colloquially, not genuine; sham; pretentious. adjective

Of poor quality or inferior workmanship. adjective

Visibly worn or damaged from use; shabby. adjective

A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.

Worthless goods.

Vulgar pretence or sham.

Words that are spelled similarly to shoddy:
shoddy, snoddy, soddy, hoddy, spoddy.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word shoddy:
workmanship, mungo, woollen, substandard, craftsmanship, yarn, recycled, wool, merchandise, fielding, contractor, goods, journalism, poorly, editing, gameplay, allegedly, practices, errors, collapsed, poor, scholarship, construction, moments, animation, mirror, quality, rated, piece, bad, consumer, mills, mill, investigation, script, apartment, maintenance, materials, treatment, values, lot, walter, work, hollywood, material, criticism, products.

Words that rhyme with shoddy:
body, embody, gaudy, bawdy, antibody, noddy, toddy, somebody, everybody, audi, peabody, saudi, mahdi, gaudi, snoddy, soddy, waddy, dead body, squaddie, hoddy, radi, cloddy, disembody, celestial body, irrawaddy, dawdy, heavenly body, waddie, roddy, golgi body, material body, poddy, ahmadi, saadi, human body, ketone body, andreotti, boddy, adult body, oddi, pineal body, monoclonal antibody, acetone body, physical body, widebody, carotid body, pituitary body, polar body, fruiting body, female body, juvenile body, inclusion body, drawdy, broady, adult female body, adult male body, male body, cancer body, central body, claudie, canady, platonic body, boddie, laprade, oddy, conradi, varady, broadie, gennadi, gennady, live body, casady, conrady, patnaude, abad de, abroad he, ah de, alodie, aud he, baja de, ballade de, body e, bois d, bois de, bourgeois de, broad he, claude d, claude de, corradi, da d, da de, da dee, da di, deandrade, draw d, draw de, droddy, esplanade de, facade he, francois d.

Adjectives that are often used to describe shoddy:
little, pretty, much, downright, mere, cheap, good, false, insincere, same, unsterilized, whole, expensive, most, pure, plain, ornately, wear, substitute, only, more, intellectual, flimsy, bad, poor, loose, rejuvenated, indefinable, offensive, democratically, best, white, mixed.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective shoddy:
work, goods, workmanship, products, merchandise, construction, treatment, practices, materials, material, quality, stuff, job, performance, clothes, product, piece, cloth, clothing, aristocracy, service, blankets, scholarship, thinking, research, wares, houses, affair, production, equipment, uniforms, imitation, mill, standards, imitations, appearance, buildings, building, suit, methods, ones, furniture, wool, manner, mills, values, articles, business, journalism, science, contractors, craftsmanship, practice, coat, manufacture, trade, housing, aristocrats, writing, design, garments, services, shoes, procedures, maintenance, substitute, article, paper, structures, yarn, productions, industry, reporting, music, substitutes, record, investigation, lot, boots, reasoning, management.

Consonant match to shoddy:
shadow, shudder, shady, shedder, shader, shoder, sheedy, scheider, sheeder, chez de, chez deux, schader, schuld der, shade a, shade he, shade her, shade who, shadur, shah d, shaw d, she do, shed a, shed he, shed her, shed i, shewed a, shewed he, shewed her, shi de, shied a, shoe do, shooed a, shooed her, should a, should de, should e, should he, should her, show de, showed a, showed de, showed he, showed her, showed high, showed i, shu di, shuda, sze-di, xi de.

Words that sound like shoddy:
shoddy, shaadi, shady, shotty, shadi, sheedy, shada, shouty, shadow, shitty, shod, shado, shooty, shote, shetty, shaddai, shido, shardy, schaad, shoddier, shoda, shete, judy, jedi, jodie, jody, jodi, toddy, roddy, radi, judi, waddy, soddy, wadi, hoddy, judie, giada, yadi, jodee, jay dee, chuddy, waddie, jati, geddie, chidi, gidi, jadi, saadi, chado, j d, zadi, jeudi, chati, jahdai, g d, shroudy, shouldve, shade, shed, shades, rowdy, howdy, chateau, shad, saudi, sheds, shandy, shari, shadowy, shedder, shader, loudy, shakti, shads, chateaux, shedd, schuld, she'd, sched, shadier, chaat, schott, schade, shadd, shatz, shandi, howdie, schad, shaduf, shashi, sharda, chavi, scheid, shahi, chateux, shadde, scheider, chatou, schede, scheide.