Meaning & Definition of Shoddy in English

1. Reclaimed wool fiber

1. Cheap and shoddy

• "Cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- judith crist

2. Of inferior workmanship and materials

• "Mean little jerry-built houses"

3. 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"