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"Shoddy" describes something made or done badly - cheap, careless, low-quality work that falls apart or doesn't do its job well. You might call shoddy: a badly-built chair that wobbles, a house repair that leaks again right away, or even shoddy behavior, meaning unfair or dishonest treatment of someone. It's a word people use to complain, often with real frustration - "shoddy work" is a common phrase when someone feels cheated on quality.
粗製濫造的、劣質的
組成Originally, "shoddy" was the name for cheap, low-quality wool cloth made from shredded, reused wool scraps - the cloth's poor quality gave us today's meaning of "badly made."
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
shoddyadj/ˈʃɒd.i/
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Of poor quality or construction.
- Near-synonym: spotty
- Do not settle for shoddy knives if you are serious about cooking.
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Poor; low.
- Near-synonym: spotty
- Do not settle for shoddy quality in your kitchen knives.
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datedPretentious, sham, counterfeit.
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datedAmbitious by reason of newly-acquired wealth; nouveau riche.
shoddynoun/ˈʃɒd.i/
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A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.
- Formerly, shoddy cloth was “used only for padding, and such like purposes, but now blankets, flushings, druggets, carpets, and table covers, cloth for pilot and Petersham great” coats, &c., are either wholly or partly made of shoddy, which, in fact, is “occasionally worn by everybody. The beautiful woollen table covers are made wholly of shoddy, being printed by aqua-fortis from designs drawn in London and Manchester, and cut on holly and other blocks, on the spot.”
- Shoddy is a cloth made from worn woollen things, old stockings, druggets, etc., which were formerly only used for the production of inferior paper, wallpaper, etc., but which were more often thrown on the waste-heap. These odds and ends are now raw materials for inexpensive clothing fabrics. The woollen things are torn to pieces by a machine having spiked rollers (termed a devil), cleansed, and the fibre spun with a certain proportion of new wool, the yarn being afterwards woven into the full-bodied but flimsy fabric termed shoddy.
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datedWorthless goods.
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datedVulgar pretence or sham.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。