adjective (shoddier, shoddiest)
1 (of goods, work, etc.) made or done badly and with not enough care:
I always complain about bad service or shoddy goods. * He was accused of shoddy workmanship.
2 dishonest or unfair:
shoddy treatment
shoddily adverb
shoddiness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for shoddy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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