shoddy product
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- noun
- /ˈʃɑːdi ˈprɒdʌkt/
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producto de mala calidad
- The first and most widely acclaimed set of standards for increasing achievement, those of the NCTM (1989), justified their publication to "... ensure that the public is protected from shoddy products" (p. 2).
Examples
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Apple's Tim Cook dissed netbooks back in April for what seemed like acceptable reasons: cheap, "junky hardware" (Cook's words) equates to downmarket, shoddy products.
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You know, why, why do we why do we settle for shoddy products rather than the high end stuff?
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But nostalgia is, more often than not, an excuse for delivering a shoddy product to consumers who are sold on their own childhood.
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They're government contractors; of course they're corrupt right-wing organizations producing shoddy products.
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Many consumers refuse to buy from companies known for their shoddy products.
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The review highlighted that the toy was a shoddy product that broke within days.
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She was disappointed to discover that the furniture she bought was a shoddy product made from cheap materials.
Synonyms
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3.2
A thing that is worth little and does not work well
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8.9
A thing of very poor quality that is useless
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2.8
Something that is not good or well made
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Cheap things that break easily
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Poor-quality items that are not worth buying
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A low-cost fake of a brand-name item that looks like the real thing but is lower quality
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A thing that costs little and is low in quality
Cheap goods that look badly made and will fall apart quickly
A thing that is very bad and not worth having
Something of very poor quality not worth buying
An object like a phone or lamp that is broken and not worth keeping
Antonyms
How Well Made
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shoddy product comes from the word shoddy, which was the name for cheap cloth made by grinding old wool into new fabric, and that cloth was weak and low quality. So shoddy came to mean 'poor quality', which is why a shoddy product today is an item that is badly made.