Usually means: Inferior quality; cheaply and poorly.
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  1. shoddy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shoddy, shoddy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shoddy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shoddy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shoddy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shoddy, shoddy: Wordnik
  7. shoddy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shoddy: Wiktionary
  9. shoddy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shoddy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shoddy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shoddy: Dictionary.com
  13. shoddy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. shoddy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Shoddy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shoddy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shoddy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shoddy: Free Dictionary
  19. shoddy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. shoddy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Shoddy: The Word Detective
  22. shoddy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. shoddy: Rhymezone
  24. Shoddy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

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  2. shoddy: Legal dictionary

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  1. shoddy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shoddy: Idioms
  2. shoddy: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shoddy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shoddy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shoddier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of poor quality or construction.
adjective:  (dated) Pretentious, sham, counterfeit.
adjective:  (dated) Ambitious by reason of newly-acquired wealth; nouveau riche.
noun:  A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.
noun:  (dated) Worthless goods.
noun:  (colloquial, dated) Vulgar pretence or sham.

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