shoddy

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

reclaimed wool fiber
• Hypernyms:
wool

II - adjective

1. cheap and shoddy
- "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
• Syn:
cheapjack, tawdry
• Similar to:
inferior
• Derivationally related forms:
tawdriness (for: tawdry), shoddiness
2. 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
• Syn:
deceptive, misleading
• Similar to:
dishonest, dishonorable
• Derivationally related forms:
deceive (for: deceptive), deceptiveness (for: deceptive)
3. of inferior workmanship and materials
- mean little jerry-built houses
• Syn:
jerry-built
• Similar to:
weak
• Derivationally related forms:
shoddiness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  deceptive, misleading, jerry-built, cheapjack, tawdry