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Narrator: Today's word is "Shoddy" — adjective, pronounced /ˈʃɒdi/, with the stress on "shod".
Narrator: Shoddy means badly made or done, with little care.
Narrator: In plain English, shoddy means poor quality.
Narrator: It originally meant cheap cloth made from recycled wool in Yorkshire.
Narrator: A common collocation is "shoddy workmanship", which describes careless building or repairs.
Narrator: It differs from "cheap", because cheap is low in price, while shoddy is low in quality.
Narrator: In a second sense, "shoddy treatment" means unfair behaviour.
Narrator: Building, retail, consumer rights and journalism all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: shoddy is careless and poor.
Speaker A: Why is the new shelf wonky?
Speaker B: SHODDY workmanship! It first meant cheap recycled wool.
Speaker A: Call the builder back?
Speaker B: Tomorrow.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Shoddy goods can be returned", consumer rights. "The repairs were shoddy", building. "Shoddy treatment of patients", news.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Double the "d", "shoddy".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Slapdash is its cousin, sloppy its twin, and inferior an alternative — yet shoddy keeps its careless reputation!
Speaker B: Let's use "shoddy" in AI prompts — useful for complaints and quality checks.
Speaker A: How for complaints?
Speaker B: Consumer rights.
Prompt: Write a complaint letter about shoddy building work citing the Consumer Rights Act.
Speaker A: And quality?
Speaker B: Checklists.
Prompt: Create a checklist to spot shoddy workmanship before paying a tradesperson.
Speaker A: Could it help reviews?
Speaker B: Yes, for tone.
Prompt: Rewrite this review about a shoddy product so it is firm but fair.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Code quality.
Prompt: Find shoddy error handling in this code and suggest fixes.
Shoddy — meaning in Arabic & definition More S courses GL Dictionary