Shoddy

Definition: Shoddy

Shoddy

Adjective

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

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

Noun

1. Reclaimed wool fiber.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shoddy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)

Industry

Literature

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Synonyms: Shoddy

Inutility

Litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button top; shoddy; rags, orts, trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings, offscourings, waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings; broken meat; dregs; (dirt); weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole; rudera, deads.

Worthlessness

Cheap, shoddy; slapdash.

Crosswords: Shoddy

German (shoddy).

Giveaway in condemning this shoddy misrepresentation of our modern navy (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman)

Perhaps you're made of shoddy materials, Megatron (Transformers; writing credit: George Arthur Bloom; Doug Booth)

Shoddy the Tailor (1915)

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Books

• Savvy shopper; a guide to hundreds of money-saving, time-saving, temper-saving tips to help you win the consumer's battle against rising prices, shoddy work, false claims, and the frustrations of the marketplace (reference)

• Shoddy Cove (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Economic History

China

Premier Zhu Rongji has criticized corruption in the construction industry because of the safety hazards created by shoddy construction. (references)

China

Normal market mechanisms were disrupted, agricultural production fell behind, and China's people exhausted themselves producing what turned out to be shoddy, unsalable goods. (references)

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Expressions using "shoddy": shoddy fever ♦ shoddy goods ♦ shoddy piece of work ♦ shoddy work. Additional references.

Albanian

lesh artificial, i ulët (base, contemptible, dark, deep, down, gentle, give away, humble, ignoble, infamous, low, low down, low lying, lowly, mean, modest, nasty, nefarious, petty, primary, rascally, scrubby, scurvy, subdued, vile, villainous, vulgar), i keq (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blinking, bodeful, cancerous, catty, cheesy, crook, dark, defective, dubious, evil, heavy, ill, ill disposed, ill natured, ill-conditioned, lousy, low-grade, malign, malignant, nasty, naughty, perverse, poor, punk, shady, sinister, ugly, vicious, vile, wicked), i falsifikuar (adulterate, counterfeit, fabricated, faked, pseudo), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نفايات (dumps, litter, offal, refuse, spoil, tailings), ‏نسيج صوفي ردئ, ‏حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), ‏زائف (adulterate, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, fictive, floating, hypocritical, imitation, imitative, mock, postiche, pretended, pseudo, queer, sham, simulate, spurious, unreal), ‏خسيس (abject, base, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, ignoble, loon, lousy, low, lowly, mean, paltry, pooch, reptile, ruffian, scruffy, servile, shabby, sleazy, small change, sordid, vile, villainous), ‏رخيص (cheap, crummy, frugal, inexpensive, junk, low-priced, saleable, sleazy, tinny, two bit), ‏ردئ الصنع (sleazy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

калпав (bad, dud, jitney, rotten), нещо просташко, лош (bad, chronic, cobbler, evil, fie-fie, foul, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, inferior, loose, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malign, mean, miscreant, miserable, nasty, naughty, poor, rough, rugged, severe, sinister, sorry, thumping, ugly, vicious, wicked, wrong), боклук (dirt, dross, dud, fug, garbage, junk heap, litter, mullock, odd-come-shorts, punk, raffle, rubbish, scrap heap, spilth, trash, tripe, waste), просташки претенциозен, плат от дреб, дреб (noil). (various references)

Chinese 

劣等 (inferiority). (various references)

Czech

ošumìlý (disreputable, dowdy, dowdyish, down at heel, scruffy, seedy, shabby, threadbare), chatrný (broken, coarse, delicate, frail, jerry built, paltry, poorly, unsound, weak), šmejd (dog, junk, trash, tripe, trumpery). (various references)

Danish

shoddy, uldstøv, uldaffald (waste of sheep's or lamb's wool), kradsuld (garnetted wool, pulled wool, reclaimed wool, reprocessed wool, reworked wool, waste of sheep's or lamb's wool). (various references)

Dutch

shoddy, wolpluis, wolafval. (various references)

Farsi 

پارچه پست , کالای تقلبی , جنس بنجل (Duffer, Junk), جازده (Bastard), بدساخت . (various references)

French

shoddy, tissu fait d'effiloché, mesquin (shabby), mal fini, mal fait, de mauvaise qualité, déchets de laine, déchets, boues de laine. (various references)

German

Schund (muck, rubbish, trash). (various references)

Greek 

πρόστυχοσ (bitchy, caddish, cheap, coarse, common, hangdog, ignoble, lawbred, lewd, low, lowdown, low-minded, mean, ornery, raffish, ratty, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, sordid, vile, vulgar), πλαστόσ (counterfeit, false, falsified, fictitious, forged, mock, sham, spurious, supposititious), υπολείμματα μαλλιού, απορρίμματα μαλλιών. (various references)

Hebrew 

מאיכות �'רוע�", זול (cheap, cheapness, inexpensive, low, meretricious). (various references)

Hungarian

vacak (bleeding, cheesy, contemptible, crummy, despicable, dross, flaming, lousy, mangy, measly, moldy, mouldy, number, paltry, pelting, piddling, pokey, potty, punk, ratty, raunchy, rinky-dink, rubbishy, ruddy, schlock, scurvied, shocking, tacky, tatty, tinhorn, tin-pot, trash, trashy), tucatáru, selejtes (drossy, flawed, flawful, flawy, rubbishy, substandard, waste), vásári áru (brummagem ware), tépett gyapjú, hitvány (bloody, caddish, dastardly, despicable, grovelling, mean, naught, perfidious, pitiable, punk, raffish, rascally, rinky-dink, rubbishy, scummy, scurvied, scurvy, skunk, sordid, squalid, tin-pot, trashy, vile, worthless), bóvli (brummagem ware, bum, catchpenny, chintzy, piece of junk, rubbishy, trumpery), ógyapjú. (various references)

Italian

shoddy, scadente (bad, common, inferior, poor, ropy, rubbishy, sad, second rate, substandard), polvere di lana, lappolato, laniccio. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

手�'抜く (to be shoddy, to cut corners, to ease up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

て�'ぬく (to be shoddy, to cut corners, to ease up). (various references)

Korean 

재생모. (various references)

Manx

boght (deprived, grotty, miserable, pauper, poor, shabby, skinny). (various references)

Pig Latin

oddyshay.(various references)

Portuguese

resíduos de lã (noil), lã inferior, feito de trapos (painted), falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, dummy, erroneous, faked, false, flash, hollow-hearted, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so-called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two-faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong), de qualidade inferior (painted, second-rate, third-rate), de farrapos, artigo de má qualidade, "shoddy". (various references)

Russian 

хлам (junk, lumber, odd-come-short, rubbish, rummage, schlock), притворный (feigned, hypocritical, make believe, mock, pretended, seeming, simulated), поделка недоброкачественный, поддельный (bogus, counterfeit, dud, dummy, factitious, forged, imitative, mock, phoney, pinchbeck, pretended, queer, spurious, supposititious, tin, unreal), искусственный (artificial, factitious, far-fetched, made, made up, man-made, phantomlike, synthetic, synthetical), дрянной (cheesy, crappy, lousy, rubbishy, trashy, twopenny-halfpenny). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

veštačka vuna, pokondirena tikva, petparački (cheap, penny-a-line), načinjen od šodija, lošeg kvaliteta (poor quality, quality: of poor quality, sleazy), loša roba, loš (abominable, bad, gross, lousy, mean, miserable, poor, refuse, trashy, vile). (various references)

Spanish

shoddy, residuos de lana, regenerado (reclaimed, regenerate), pacotilla (rubbish, trash, venture), mercancía de mala calidad, mal hecho, lana regenerada (garnetted wool, pulled wool, reclaimed wool, reprocessed wool, re-used wool, reworked wool), de pacotilla (rubbishy, trashy). (various references)

Swedish

usel (abject, abysmal, bad, base, bum, cheesy, dastardly, execrable, ignoble, low, mean, miserable, paltry, pitiful, poor, tacky, trashy, vile, worthless, wretched), oäkta (apocryphal, bastard, counterfeit, false, fictitious, flash, illegitimate, imitation, mock, pinchbeck, sham, spurious). (various references)

Thai

เลวทราม (foul, sordid, squalid), คุ�"� าพต่ำ (cheap, low, low-grade), ของคุ�"� าพต่ำ. (various references)

Turkish

sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, hollow, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, sham, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful), sökülerek yeniden örülmüş yün, değersiz şey (cheeseparing, damn, falderal, gold brick, junk, lemon, rag, slush, small beer, stiver, trifle, trumpery), çaputlardan yapılmış, adi (abject, base, camp, campy, cheap jack, chintzy, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, everyday, groveling, grovelling, gutter, hackneyed, jerkwater, little, low, low class, mean, measly, no class, one horse, ordinary, ornery, picayune, picayunish, poky, rubbishy, slavish, sleazy, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, vile, vulgar, wormy, yellow dog), artık (anymore, at that, discard, dreg, dregs, dross, effluent, fag end, hog-wash, leftover, no longer, no more, refuse, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, rest, scraps, spoils, tag end, waste), artık iplerle örülmüş, artık kumaşlardan yapılmış, bayağı (banal, camp, cheap, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, corrupt, dastardly, debased, goodish, inferior, lewd, little, low camp, low class, no class, ordinary, plebeian, pretty, prosaic, quite, rather, run-off-the-mill, tawdry, tolerably, vulgar), çaput (rag, tatter), değersiz (cheap, despicable, footling, inferior, insignificant, jerkwater, measly, milk and water, no-account, nonvalent, non-valent, nugatory, of no worth, paltry, pitiable, punk, rubbishy, tinpot, trashy, trivial, trumpery, two bit, valueless, vile, worthless), züppelik (dandyism, foppery, snobbery), ip söküğü, kalitesiz (cheap, cheap and nasty, cheap jack, coarse, hand-me-down, inferior, of poor quality, offgrade, ornery, punk, ropy, sleazy, third class, third rate), kibarlık taslayan, kumaş artığı, bayağılık (abjection, abjectness, banality, coarseness, commonness, inferiority, platitude, tawdriness, vulgarism, vulgarity). (various references)

Ukrainian

удаваний (affected, artificial, assumed, counterfeit, feigned, hypocrite, make believe, mock, obvious, ostensible, ostensive, pretended, professed, put on, seeming, simulate, studied, supposed, well-affected, would be), регенерований каучук, штучна вовна, шоді, неякісний, мотлох (duds, lumber, odd-come-short, raff, rag, rubbish, shucks, wrack), зроблений з шоді. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vải tái sinh h� ng xấu, l� m bằng vải t�"i giả mạo xấu, l� m bằng vải tái sinh, không có giá trị (crummy, valueless, void, worthless), h� ng thứ phẩm. (various references)

Misspellings

"Shoddy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Huddy, Iholdy, rhodyn, Shadday, shdd, shody, shotty, Shudy, sody, stoddy, thuddy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: soddy, yodhs.

-2 letters: hods, hoys, odds, shod, yodh, yods.

-3 letters: dos, hod, hoy, odd, ods, ohs, shy, sod, soy, yod.

-4 letters: do, ho, od, oh, os, oy, sh, so, yo.

+2 letters: athodyds, dowdyish, hydroids, shoddily.

+3 letters: ladyhoods.

+4 letters: hydathodes, hydroxides.

+5 letters: dehydrators, hydromedusa.