What is another word for shoddy?
Synonyms for shoddy
ˈʃɒd ishod·dy
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Princeton's WordNet
shoddyadjective
reclaimed wool fiber
cheapjack, shoddy, tawdryadjective
cheap and shoddy
"cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
Synonyms:
flashy, cheapjack, garish, trashy, jerry-built, meretricious, tacky, gimcrack, loud, flash, brassy, tatty, deceptive, misleading, cheap, tawdry, gaudyjerry-built, shoddyadjective
of inferior workmanship and materials
"mean little jerry-built houses"
Synonyms:
tawdry, cheapjack, jerry-built, misleading, deceptivedeceptive, misleading, shoddyadjective
designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
"the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"
Synonyms:
cheapjack, misleading, tawdry, deceptive, jerry-built, delusory
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#827 | cheap | |
#1174 | flash | |
#6888 | loud | |
#12256 | misleading | |
#15200 | inferior | |
#20982 | trashy | |
#24641 | deceptive | |
#25249 | shabby | |
#33469 | flashy | |
#38672 | tacky | |
#43548 | woolly | |
#51821 | shoddy | |
#59182 | gaudy | |
#79242 | garish | |
#85672 | tatty | |
#96968 | brassy | |
#100861 | tawdry | |
#209600 | meretricious |
How to use shoddy in a sentence?
State Farm is just not in the economic interest of the insurer to have a car go in and out of an auto body shop three or four times to get State Farm right, and so the notion that somehow this is meant to... do shoddy work or to encourage the idea that we have to get it done quickly and move on to the next one really isn't in the insurance company's economic interest.
They wanted the MAGA movement to go away, and that's why they pushed the shoddy, shady, corrupt election on us. They wanted MAGA and everything President President Trump stood for to go away.
It's either shoddy design or it's surveillance by design.
Australia is basically paying blood money to a much poorer, less developed state with a shoddy record of refugee protection to take people that Canberra doesn't want, when they get there, the refugees will find huge hurdles to integrate, jobs that are few and far between, and a resentful local population wondering why this group should get a time-limited year of Australian assistance when ordinary Cambodians do not.
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.
Translations for shoddy
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- خسيسArabic
- schlampig, billig, Reißwolle, minderwertig, schäbigGerman
- κακής ποιότηταςGreek
- chapucera, chapucero, mal hecha, mal hechoSpanish
- surkea, huonolaatuinen, ala-arvoinen, kehnoFinnish
- effilochée, effilochéFrench
- կոպիտArmenian
- burukIndonesian
- scadenteItalian
- זולHebrew
- 見掛け倒し, 劣等Japanese
- 조잡하다, 재생모Korean
- malefactusLatin
- nagemaaktDutch
- slurvet, slurveteNorwegian
- дрянной, низкопробныйRussian
- shoddyYiddish
- 以次充好Chinese
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