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  • noun uncountable The property of being shoddy.
  • noun countable, rare The result or product of being shoddy.

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  • noun the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better
  • noun the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction

Etymologies

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From shoddy +‎ -ness

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