Princeton's WordNet

1. shoddy(adj)

   reclaimed wool fiber

2. cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry(adj)

   cheap and shoddy

   "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist

3. jerry-built, shoddy(adj)

   of inferior workmanship and materials

   "mean little jerry-built houses"

4. deceptive, misleading, shoddy(adj)

   designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently

   "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"

Wiktionary

1. shoddy(Noun)

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

2. shoddy(Adjective)

   Being of poor quality or construction

   Do not settle for shoddy knives if you are serious about cooking.

Origin: * , but possibly from shoad, from scádan, or possibly from the Arabic word for reuse. Shoad was of inferior quality for building.

Webster Dictionary

1. Shoddy(verb)

   a fibrous material obtained by "deviling," or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo

2. Shoddy(verb)

   a fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy

3. Shoddy(adj)

   made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; as, shoddy cloth; shoddy blankets; hence, colloquially, not genuine; sham; pretentious; as, shoddy aristocracy

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. Shoddy

   a stuff woven of old woollen fabrics teased into fibre and of new wool intermixed.

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