shoddy

adj

1. Of poor quality or construction.

   “Near-synonym: spotty”

   “Do not settle for shoddy knives if you are serious about cooking.”

2. Poor; low.

   “Near-synonym: spotty”

   “Do not settle for shoddy quality in your kitchen knives.”

3. (dated)Pretentious, sham, counterfeit.
4. (dated)Ambitious by reason of newly-acquired wealth; nouveau riche.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.

   “Formerly, shoddy cloth was “used only for padding, and such like purposes, but now blankets, flushings, druggets, carpets, and table covers, cloth for pilot and Petersham great” coats, &c., are either wholly or partly made of shoddy, which, in fact, is “occasionally worn by everybody. The beautiful woollen table covers are made wholly of shoddy, being printed by aqua-fortis from designs drawn in London and Manchester, and cut on holly and other blocks, on the spot.””

   “To fill contracts for hundreds of thousands of uniforms, textile manufacturers compressed the fibers of recycled woolen goods into a material called “shoddy”.”

2. (countable, dated, uncountable)Worthless goods.
3. (colloquial, countable, dated, uncountable)Vulgar pretence or sham.