shoddy
Cheap and flimsy
Shoddy describes something poorly made or of inferior quality: shoddy construction, shoddy workmanship.
The word often implies cutting corners or lack of care rather than honest limitation.
Shoddy treatment is careless or disrespectful.
Originally, shoddy was a noun for cheap fabric made from recycled wool—the material's poor quality gave rise to the adjective.
Below required quality
- flimsyWeak and easily damaged
- second-rateBelow acceptable standards
- mediocreOf only moderate quality
- poorLacking sufficient resources
deficient · inadequate · unsatisfactory · lousy · crummy · shabby · tawdry · trashy
Badly deteriorated from neglect
- ricketyUnsteady, liable to collapse
- decrepitWorn by age
- dilapidatedRuined through neglect
- flimsyWeak and easily damaged
unstable · unsafe · makeshift · crumbling · jerry-built · cobbled · patched · thrown-together
substandard
Below required quality
- flimsyWeak and easily damaged
- second-rateBelow acceptable standards
- mediocreOf only moderate quality
poor · deficient · inadequate · unsatisfactory · lousy · crummy · shabby · tawdry · trashy · lackluster
ramshackle
Badly deteriorated from neglect
- ricketyUnsteady, liable to collapse
- decrepitWorn by age
- dilapidatedRuined through neglect
flimsy · unstable · unsafe · makeshift · crumbling · jerry-built · cobbled · patched · thrown-together · collapsing
knockoff
Unauthorized replica product
- counterfeitFraudulent imitation
- fakeNot the real thing
- imitationCopy of the original
bogus · phony · fraudulent · ersatz · pseudo · spurious · deceptive · dishonest · pretend · mock
reclaimed
Taken back; salvaged
- recycledConverted waste into material
- reprocessedTreated or converted again
- textileMaterial from woven fibers
fiber · rag · waste · mill · Yorkshire · Victorian · cloth · fabric · woolen · recovered
- schlockschlock, schlocky, trash, junk, dreck
- fiberscotton, wool, silk, linen, hemp
- slapdashsloppy, hasty, rushed, careless, haphazard
- inferiorinferior, substandard, second-rate, second-class, subpar
- repair qualityflawless, professional, amateur, excellent, poor
- worn-outworn, shabby, tattered, threadbare, battered
shoddywell-made
Soundly constructed
high-quality · excellent · first-rate · top-notch · superior
shoddyhonorable
Having high moral standards
honest · reputable · respectable · noble · upstanding
- shoddy workmanship
- shoddily dressedWearing clothes carelessly