英语词汇“shoddy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	shoddy
释义	shod·dy I. \ˈshädē, -di\ noun (-es) Etymology: origin unknown 1. a. : wool of better quality and longer staple than mungo reclaimed from unfelted materials, rags, or waste and usually mixed with new wool before reusing b. : a fabric often of inferior quality manufactured in whole or in part from reclaimed wool (as shoddy) 2. a. : refuse, inferior, imitation, or pretentiously vulgar articles or matter < cheap shoddy for oak and mahogany — H.J.Massingham > < show up a younger generation of writers as the blunted manufacturers of shoddy they are — Times Literary Supplement > b. : a pretentious vulgarity in way of life especially from the exploitation of newly or underhandedly acquired wealth < preserved itself inviolate from respectability and shoddy and the invasions of twentieth-century commonplaceness — Robert Lynd > 3. : reclaimed rubber II. adjective (-er/-est) 1. : made wholly or in part of shoddy < shoddy cloth > < a shoddy uniform > 2. a. : falsely claiming moral worth and social status < shoddy aristocracy > b. : cheaply imitative or vulgarly pretentious < antique metalware is sold here as well as the shoddiest machine-made articles — American Guide Series: New York City > < a great deal of distinctly shoddy veneered furniture was turned out — S.F.Horn > c. : employing, consisting of, or made by hasty, scamping, or unsound methods < had done as cheap and shoddy a job as he could do — Thomas Wolfe > < the construction of the shattered dam had been shoddy — Louis Bromfield > d. : appearing sordid or squalid especially through wear or use : shabby, run-down < sitting on a couch in the shoddy hotel lobby — Knox Burger > < shoddy second-hand clothes > e. : vaguely reprehensible : disreputable < a shoddy military adventurer had plunged his country into civil war — Anthony West > < the whole shoddy fraud was disclosed — R.L.Riggs >
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