shoddy

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

1. Of poor quality or construction.
2. (dated) Pretentious, sham, counterfeit.
3. (dated) Ambitious by reason of newly-acquired wealth; nouveau riche.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.
2. (countable, dated, uncountable) Worthless goods.
3. (colloquial, countable, dated, uncountable) Vulgar pretence or sham.

Sinonieme

inferior

cheap

poor

shabby

bad

👎

spurious

false

feigned

sham

counterfeit

low

trashy

dilapidated

mock

faked

base

simulated

hangdog

bogus

vulgar

jerry-built

cheapjack

sordid

pretended

forged

deceptive

misleading

tawdry

cut corners

faithless

execrable

crummy

ease up

duplicitous

cruddy

double-dealing

low-minded

disorganized

crestfallen

coarse

disloyal

lowbred

disingenuous

lousy

lowdown

low-grade

lewd

mean

miserable

devious

Vertalings

scadente

mal hecho

schäbig

effilochée

malefactus

mal hecha

κακής ποιότητας

billig

Schund

effiloché

trompeuse

de mauvaise qualité

nagemaakt

falso

artık

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈʃɒd.i/

Etimologie (Engels)

* Unknown, but possibly from shoad (“loose stone and rubble; fragments”), equivalent to shoad + -y; or possibly from the Arabic word for reuse. Shoad was of inferior quality for building.
* The modern adjectival sense was apparently derived from inexpensive shoddy (“fabric from wool-processing byproduct”), which was not really suitable for (but was sometimes still used for) things such as military uniforms at the beginning of the US Civil War.