Shoddy

Adjective

 * 1) Being of poor quality or construction
 * Do not settle for shoddy knives if you are serious about cooking.

Noun

 * 1) A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.
 * 2) *1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2003, p. 324:
 * To fill contracts for hundreds of thousands of uniforms, textile manufacturers compressed the fibers of recycled woolen goods into a material called “shoddy”.
 * To fill contracts for hundreds of thousands of uniforms, textile manufacturers compressed the fibers of recycled woolen goods into a material called “shoddy”.

Thesaurus
NG, abject, abominable, affected, apocryphal, arrant, artificial, assumed, atrocious, awful, base, bastard, beastly, beat-up, bedraggled, beggarly, beneath contempt, blameworthy, blowzy, bogus, broken-down, brummagem, brutal, budget, careless, cheap, cheapjack, cheat, cheesy, chintzy, clamjamfry, clinquant, colorable, colored, common, contemptible, counterfeit, counterfeited, crappy, crummy, debased, debris, degraded, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dilapidated, dingy, dire, dirty, discreditable, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, disreputable, distorted, dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, dreadful, dressed up, dummy, dust, easy, economic, economy, egregious, embellished, embroidered, enormous, ersatz, execrable, factitious, fake, faked, fakement, falsified, feigned, fetid, fictitious, fictive, filthy, flagrant, forgery, foul, frame-up, fraud, frayed, frazzled, frowzy, frugal, frumpish, frumpy, full of holes, fulsome, garbled, gaudy, gimcracky, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, grave, grievous, gross, grubby, hateful, heinous, hoax, holey, horrible, horrid, ignominious, illegitimate, imitation, impostor, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, inexpensive, infamous, inferior, informal, inglorious, junk, junky, lamentable, litter, little, loathsome, loose, lousy, low, low-down, low-priced, lumber, lumpen, make-believe, makeshift, man-made, manageable, mangy, mean, measly, meretricious, messy, miserable, mock, moderate, modest, monstrous, mussy, nasty, nefarious, negligent, no-account, no-good, noisome, nominal, not worth having, not worth mentioning, not worthwhile, notorious, nugacious, nugatory, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, paltry, paste, patchy, pathetic, perverted, petty, phony, pinchbeck, pitiable, pitiful, plastic, poky, poor, pretended, pseudo, put-on, put-up job, quasi, queer, raff, ragged, raggedy, rank, ratty, reasonable, regrettable, reprehensible, reptilian, repulsive, riffraff, rip-off, rotten, rubbish, rubbishy, rubble, ruinous, run-down, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scraggly, scrap, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second-rate, seedy, self-styled, sensible, shabby, shady, sham, shameful, shocking, simulacrum, simulated, slack, slatternly, sleazy, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, small, so-called, soi-disant, sordid, sorry, spurious, squalid, supposititious, swindle, synthetic, tacky, tattered, tatty, tawdry, terrible, tin, tinsel, tinselly, titivated, token, too bad, torn, trash, trashy, trivial, truck, trumpery, twisted, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unauthentic, unclean, unexpensive, ungenuine, unkempt, unmentionable, unnatural, unneat, unreal, unrespectable, unsightly, untidy, valueless, vile, villainous, warped, whited sepulcher, within means, woeful, worst, worth the money, worthless, wretched

Etymology

 * , but possibly from shoad:, from scádan:, or possibly from the Arabic word for reuse. Shoad was of inferior quality for building.
 * The modern adjectival sense was apparently derived from the use of inexpensive undefined: for unsuitable applications such as for military uniforms at the beginning of the US Civil War.

Adjective

 * Chinese:
 * Dutch: nagemaakt
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: κακής ποιότητας
 * Indonesian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 見掛け倒し (みかけだおし mikakedaoshi)
 * Korean: 조잡하다
 * Latin: scadens nominative, scadentis genitive, malefactus, malefacta , malefactum
 * Norwegian:, (not about objects)
 * Spanish: mal hecho, mal hecha

Noun

 * German: Reißwolle


 * Korean: 재생모