Shoddy - English meaning

adjective

Not giving sufficient attention or thought to avoiding harm or errors.

Usage examples:

She had been careless and had left the window unlocked

adjective

Low in price, especially in relation to similar items or services.

Usage examples:

Local buses were reliable and cheap

adverb

At or for a low price.

Usage examples:

A house that was going cheap because of the war

adjective

Costing little money or less than is usual or expected

Usage examples:

After world war ii, the us had cheap labor, cheap energy, cheap raw materials, cheap housing, cheap…

noun

A seller of cheap inferior goods, typically a hawker at a fair or market.

Usage examples:

A cheapjack calling himself dr marigold took pity on this deaf and dumb child who resembled his dau…

adjective

Of inferior quality.

Usage examples:

A cheapjack vehicle

adjective

In a natural or raw state; not yet processed or refined.

Usage examples:

Crude oil

noun

Offensively coarse or rude, especially in relation to sexual matters.

Usage examples:

A crude joke

noun

Natural mineral oil.

Usage examples:

The ship was carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude

noun

A flour pudding boiled or steamed in a cloth bag.

Usage examples:

A currant duff

adjective

Of very poor quality.

Usage examples:

Duff lyrics

noun

Decaying vegetable matter covering the ground under trees.

Usage examples:

Generally the fires in this area burn the duff and underbrush and scorch a few trees

adjective

Showy but cheap or badly made.

Usage examples:

Plastic gimcrack cookware

noun

A cheap and showy ornament; a knick-knack.

Usage examples:

There's nothing you can do to change the little ones' minds about the gewgaws and gimcracks they ex…

adjective

Attractive on the surface but badly made and of no real or permanent value

adjective

Unpleasant and of poor quality.

Usage examples:

A grotty little hotel

adjective

Unpleasant or of bad quality

Usage examples:

A grotty little room

adjective

Lower in rank, status, or quality.

Usage examples:

Schooling in inner-city areas was inferior to that in the rest of the country

noun

A person lower than another in rank, status, or ability.

Usage examples:

Her social and intellectual inferiors

adjective

Built quickly and badly using cheap materials

adjective

Useless or of little value.

Usage examples:

He will draw figures in a clumsy way and make use of the cheap look of junky illustration while at …

noun

Variant spelling of junkie.

noun

A drug addict.

adjective

Of a bad quality or low level

Usage examples:

Expanding car ownership and low-grade gasoline have made traffic the leading source of air pollutio…

adjective

Resembling a rope, especially in being long, strong, and fibrous.

Usage examples:

The ropy roots of the old tree

noun

Waste material; refuse or litter.

Usage examples:

Householders may be charged for the removal of non-recyclable rubbish

verb

Criticize severely and reject as worthless.

Usage examples:

He rubbished the idea of a european community-wide carbon tax

adjective

Very bad; worthless or useless.

Usage examples:

People might say i was a rubbish manager

adjective

Of poor quality and little value.

Usage examples:

Rubbishy reality tv shows

adjective

Not of good quality

Usage examples:

A second-rate hotel

adjective

Done too hurriedly and carelessly.

Usage examples:

He gave a slapdash performance

adverb

Hurriedly and carelessly.

Usage examples:

His cabin bordering the upper buffalo river wilderness in the ozarks of northwest arkansas is slapd…

idiom

Marked by great carelessness

adjective

(of glue, paint, or other substances) not fully dry and retaining a slightly sticky feel.

Usage examples:

The paint was still tacky

adjective

Showing poor taste and quality.

Usage examples:

Even in her faintly tacky costumes, she won our hearts

adjective

(of a substance) sticky

Usage examples:

I left a fingerprint in the tacky paint., she reads those tacky romance novels.

adjective

Worn and shabby; in poor condition.

Usage examples:

Tatty upholstered furniture

adjective

Old and in bad condition

Usage examples:

Tatty old jeans

adjective

Showy but cheap and of poor quality.

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Tawdry jewellery

noun

Cheap and gaudy finery.

Usage examples:

I had seen him in procession with his golden crook, preceded by the priests of his diocese, dressed…

adjective

Showy, cheap, and of poor quality

Usage examples:

Tawdry jewelry/furnishings

adjective

Of low quality

Usage examples:

I don't want to work for some third-rate company.

adjective

Having a displeasingly thin, metallic sound.

Usage examples:

Tinny music played in the background

noun

A can of beer.

Usage examples:

Let's crack open a tinny, mate

adjective

(of sound) weak and high; lacking a full sound

Usage examples:

The music sounded good even on the tv’s tinny speakers.

adjective

(especially of items of popular culture) of poor quality.

Usage examples:

Trashy novels and formulaic movies

adjective

Worthless, or of low quality

Usage examples:

Trashy romance novels