shoddy

Senso (Inglese)

Adj

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

Noun

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

sinonimi

inferior

cheap

poor

bad

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shabby

spurious

false

mock

feigned

counterfeit

trashy

sham

low

dilapidated

simulated

base

deceptive

sordid

pretended

faked

tawdry

forged

hangdog

misleading

vulgar

bogus

jerry-built

cheapjack

lewd

lousy

lowbred

lowdown

low-grade

low-minded

mean

miserable

no-good

ornery

piteous

punic

punk

raffish

ragged

ramshackle

ratty

renegade

ropy

rubbishy

rueful

scurrilous

scurvy

second-rate

seedy

sleazy

sloppy

sneaky

sorry

supposititious

tacky

tatty

threadbare

traitorous

treacherous

treasonable

treasonous

tricksy

trite

unfaithful

vile

woebegone

woeful

wretched

ropey

stinky

roughly made

inferior quality

poorly made

shoddy cloth

bad grade goods

rogue product

poor products

bitchy

caddish

coarse

common

contrived

crappy

crestfallen

cruddy

crummy

cut corners

deceitful

delusory

deplorable

devious

disingenuous

disloyal

disorganized

double-dealing

duplicitous

ease up

execrable

faithless

fictitious

ignoble

inadequate

inelegant

infelicitous

Pronunciato come (IPA)

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Etimologia (Inglese)

* 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.