shoddy
adjective · nounA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(of goods) Of poor quality or construction.
Near-synonym: spotty
Do not settle for shoddy knives if you are serious about cooking.
Đồng nghĩa: spotty
- 2.
(of quality) Poor; low.
Near-synonym: spotty
Do not settle for shoddy quality in your kitchen knives.
Đồng nghĩa: cruddy, lousy, trashy, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC, bum, cheap, cheap and nasty, cheapshit, cheesy, chintzy, coffee-and, crap, crappo, crappy, craptastic, crapperific, craptabulous, craptacular, cruddy, crummy, dogwater, drecky, flimsy, fourth-rate, gash, garbage, god-awful, inferior, lousy, low, low-grade, low-quality, low-rent, made in China, mid, naughty, one-star, poor, poor man's, pound-shop, punk, rinky-dink, ropy, rubbish, sad, schlocky, scrubby, second-rate, shoddy, slazy, slight, slim, subpar, shit, shite, shitty, substandard, ticky-tacky, tenth-rate, third-rate, tin-pot, trash, trashy, under par, woeful, wretched, spotty
- 3.
(dated)Pretentious, sham, counterfeit.
- 4.
(dated)Ambitious by reason of newly-acquired wealth; nouveau riche.
Danh từ
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.
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*, 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…