shoddy (n.)

  1. reclaimed wool fiber

    shoddy (adj.)

  1. cheap and shoddy; cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob- Judith Crist

    [ Syn: cheapjack , tawdry ]

  2. of inferior workmanship and materials; mean little jerry-built houses

    [ Syn: jerry-built ]

  3. 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

    [ Syn: deceptive , misleading ]

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