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Textual thesaurus for "shoddy"

(adj) deceptive, misleading

designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently

the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm; deliberately deceptive packaging; a misleading similarity; statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading; shoddy business practices


(adj) jerry-built

of inferior workmanship and materials

mean little jerry-built houses


(adj) cheapjack, tawdry

cheap and shoddy

cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob- Judith Crist