shoddiness

noun — 2 senses

shoddiness

noun

Etymology From shoddy + -ness.

1

The property of being shoddy.

  • What, I wondered, is the defining characteristic of communist shoddiness? It certainly exists, for it is instantly recognizable among all the other possible forms of shoddiness.2012, Theodore Dalrymple, The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World:
2

Rare The result or product of being shoddy.

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