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How to pronounce shoddy in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dirty, sordid


shoddy business practices.
Type Words
Synonyms cheapjack, tawdry
Derivation shoddiness
Type Words
Type of wool

Examples of shoddy

shoddy
Was he really fired just for these comments, or because of his shoddy reporting?
From the tunedin.blogs.time.com
Gently ironic that a piece in the Work section should be a shoddy example of it.
From the guardian.co.uk
Some patients have disappeared from the system because of shoddy record-keeping.
From the heraldtribune.com
West Virginia started tight, and it showed in shoddy execution and missed shots.
From the denverpost.com
Chinese shoppers are used to being sold shoddy goods backed by dodgy guarantees.
From the economist.com
Gordon apparently believes that shoddy pseudoscience does not speak well of him.
From the scienceblogs.com
Both Uganda and Rwanda have attacked the report as malicious, shoddy and unfair.
From the economist.com
However shoddy the deal that has been done, Mr Tsvangirai can make a difference.
From the economist.com
Challis'sky charts were so shoddy that he didn't realize what he was looking at.
From the edition.cnn.com
More examples
  • Cheapjack: cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
  • Reclaimed wool fiber
  • Jerry-built: of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-built houses"
  • Deceptive: 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"
  • (shoddily) in a shoddy manner; "a shoddily built house"; "he treated her shoddily"
  • (shoddiness) the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better
  • (shoddiness) flimsiness: the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction
  • The manufacture of textiles is one of the oldest of human technologies. To make textiles, the first requirement is a source of fibre from which a yarn can be made, primarily by spinning. (Both fibre and fiber are used in this article. ...
  • A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool; Being of poor quality or construction