shoddy
Signification (Anglais)
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- Of poor quality or construction.
- Pretentious, sham, counterfeit.
- Ambitious by reason of newly-acquired wealth; nouveau riche.
Concepts
Synonymes
punic
supposititious
roughly made
inferior quality
poorly made
shoddy cloth
bad grade goods
rogue product
poor products
Fréquence
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ˈʃɒd.i/
Étymologie (Anglais)
* 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.
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