Definitions
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- noun uncountable The property of being
shoddy . - noun countable, rare The result or product of being
shoddy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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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Examples
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CEO Katsuaki Watanabe offered apologies and acknowledeged to reporters that Toyota's long run of "shoddiness" was jeopardizing the company.
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CEO Katsuaki Watanabe offered apologies and acknowledeged to reporters that Toyota's long run of "shoddiness" was jeopardizing the company.
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CEO Katsuaki Watanabe offered apologies and acknowledeged to reporters that Toyota's long run of "shoddiness" was jeopardizing the company.
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CEO Katsuaki Watanabe offered apologies and acknowledeged to reporters that Toyota's long run of "shoddiness" was jeopardizing the company.
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CEO Katsuaki Watanabe offered apologies and acknowledeged to reporters that Toyota's long run of "shoddiness" was jeopardizing the company.
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Cubasch is a better test; he was not able to replicate Mann – see here; also von Storch has reported Mann’s "shoddiness" here.
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But in this case, the glass tower, whose serrated edge of angular, blue-tinted balconies tears diagonally across its eastern facade, serves not to complement its neighbors so much as to underscore their shoddiness.
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One is either drawn to the country's warmth and ambition or repulsed by shoddiness and lack of civility.
Tom Doctoroff: What Foreigners Can Learn at the Shanghai Zoo
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One is either drawn to the country's warmth and ambition or repulsed by shoddiness and lack of civility.
Tom Doctoroff: What Foreigners Can Learn at the Shanghai Zoo
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Dustin Drankoski for The Wall Street Journal The glass tower at 785 Eighth underscores its neighbors' shoddiness.
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