shoddy

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ʃɒdi/

Adjective

shoddy (comparative shoddier, superlative shoddiest)

1. Of poor quality or construction

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

2. (dated) pretentious, sham, counterfeit
3. (dated) ambitious by reason of newly-acquired wealth; nouveau riche

Translations

• French: effiloché, effilochée
• German: minderwertig, billig, schäbig, schlampig
• Italian: scadente
• Portuguese: ruim
• Russian: дрянно́й
• Spanish: mal hecho, mal hecha, chapucero, chapucera, flojo, burdo

Noun

shoddy

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

2. (dated) Worthless goods.
3. (colloquial, dated) Vulgar pretence or sham.

Translations

• German: Reißwolle

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