shotty
- adjective
- /ˈʃɑːti/
- Informal
:
de mala calidad
- The furniture looked shotty and started falling apart after just a few weeks.
Examples
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He received a shotty repair on his car, so it broke down again soon after.
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Many customers were unhappy with the shotty workmanship on their new phones.
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Customers complained about the shotty service at the new restaurant.
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This furniture looks shotty.
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The construction of that building is really shotty.
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The laptop I bought was shotty and barely worked after a week.
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After the shotty repair, the bike had more problems than before.
Synonyms
176
7.5
Very bad or of low quality
30
4.5
Not made well and likely to break or stop working
9
4.8
Poor quality and likely to break quickly
3
8.5
Made quickly in a rough way that may not last
Made in a clumsy way and not of good quality
Antonyms
How Solid
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shotty probably comes from the older word shoddy, which meant 'poor quality' cloth, or from the idea of something being shot, a word people used to mean 'damaged'. So shotty means something 'made badly' or done carelessly.