Shoddy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Shoddy	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Shoddy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shoddy adj cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist Synonym(s): cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry- built houses" Synonym(s): jerry-built, shoddy 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" Synonym(s): deceptive, misleading, shoddy n reclaimed wool fiber
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shoddy \Shod"dy\, n. [Perhaps fr. {Shed}, v. t.; as meaning originally, waste stuff shedor thrown off.] 1. A fibrous material obtained by [bd]deviling,[b8] or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See {Mungo}. 2. A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy. Note: The great quantity of shoddy goods furnished as army supplies in the late Civil War in the United States gave wide currency to the word, and it came to be applied to persons who pretend to a higher position in society than that to which their breeding or worth entitles them.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shoddy \Shod"dy\, a. Made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; as, shoddy cloth; shoddy blankets; hence, colloquially, not genuine; sham; pretentious; as, shoddy aristocracy. Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. --Compton Reade.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shoddy \Shod"dy\, n. [Perh. akin to {Shed}, v. t.; as meaning originally, waste stuff shed or thrown off; cf. dial. shod to shed, and E. {Shed} a parting, separation, {Shode} a parting.] Fluffy, fibrous waste from wool carding, worsted spinning, or weaving of woolens.