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Definition of Shoddiness
1. Noun. The quality of being cheaply imitative of something better.
Generic synonyms: Ineptitude, Worthlessness
Derivative terms: Shoddy, Shoddy, Trashy, Trashy
2. Noun. The property of weakness by virtue of careless construction.
Definition of Shoddiness
1. Noun. The property of being shoddy. ¹
2. Noun. (countable rare) The result or product of being shoddy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shoddiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoddiness
Literary usage of Shoddiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Screen Acting by Mae Marsh (1921)
"There are the over-dress of vulgarity, the shoddiness of poverty, the conservatism of
... Now if mere over-dress, shoddiness, conservatism, and so on, ..."
2. Working for Living: Slavery Masquerading as Freedom and Democracy by Walter Prytulak (2005)
"You shall not conceal the truth about the shoddiness of the merchandise you are
trying to sell! All jobs on the market in the above categories were done for ..."
3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1907)
"In woman's unfitness for this form of her work lies the incentive to shoddiness,
which taints the reputation of many American manufactures. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"... because you understand that the aroma of decay, the picturesque shoddiness of
Macao, is to that 'restful' atmosphere which constitutes the charm of the ..."
5. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1918)
"... in which Miss Hurst accepts the shoddiness of background which characterizes
her literary types, and reveals the fine human current that runs beneath it ..."
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