Synonyms for shoddy
ˈʃɒd ishod·dy

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1. shoddyadjective

   reclaimed wool fiber

   Antonyms:
   honest, superior, strong, honorable

2. 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, gaudy

   Antonyms:
   honorable, superior, strong, honest

3. jerry-built, shoddyadjective

   of inferior workmanship and materials

   "mean little jerry-built houses"

   Synonyms:
   tawdry, cheapjack, jerry-built, misleading, deceptive

   Antonyms:
   honest, honorable, strong, superior

4. deceptive, 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

   Antonyms:
   strong, honorable, superior, honest

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1. shoddyadjective

   Synonyms:
   sham, spurious, mock

2. shoddynoun

   Synonyms:
   rag wool, mungo

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1. List of paraphrases for "shoddy":

   shabby, inferior, woolly, low-grade

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1. Neil Alldredge:

   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.

2. Citizen Lab:

   It's either shoddy design or it's surveillance by design.

3. Albert Einstein:

   If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

4. Kari Lake:

   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.

5. Phil Robertson:

   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.