shoddy

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

effilochée

trompeuse

de mauvaise qualité

effiloché

camelote

fromageux

qui sent le fromage

qui un goût de fromage

faux

inférieur

trompeur

Synonymes

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

Traductions

scadente

pespayelik

schäbig

malefactus

mal hecho

bayağılık

κακής ποιότητας

billig

Schund

nagemaakt

falso

mal hecha

artık

bayağı

süprüntü

Prononcé comme (IPA)

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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.