shoddyadjective
uk/ˈʃɒd.i/us/ˈʃɑː.di/disapprovingshoddy adjective (BADLY MADE)
badly and carelessly made, using low quality materials:
shoddy goods
shoddy workmanship
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Informal words for bad
- badass
- bum
- crap
- crappy
- crash and burn idiom
- crook
- crud
- crummy
- duff
- lousy
- not be up to much idiom
- pappy
- piss-poor
- pisser
- pit
- such as it is idiom
- tawdry
- trashy
- wack
- yucky
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shoddy adjective (NOT RESPECTFUL)
showing little respect, thought, or care:
They refused him sick pay when he had the flu, which is a shoddy way to treat an employee.
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Humiliating and degrading
- abase
- be under a cloud idiom
- bring/take sb down a peg (or two) idiom
- bruise
- bruise sb's ego idiom
- compromise
- cut sb down to size idiom
- deflate
- degrade
- dishonour
- doghouse
- exhibition
- fall from grace idiom
- forget
- in the doghouse idiom
- indignity
- knock
- knock sb off their pedestal idiom 1
- knock sb off their pedestal
- peg
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shoddily
adverb uk/ˈʃɒd.əl.i/us/ˈʃɑː.dəl.i/
These clothes are very shoddily made.
I've been treated very shoddily by the company.
shoddiness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈʃɒd.i.nəs/us/ˈʃɑː.di.nəs/