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Meaning of shoddily in English:

shoddily

Pronunciation /ˈʃɒdɪli/

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adverb

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‘Drab high-rise, shoddily constructed buildings in poorly designed developments have shot up everywhere.’
  • ‘The teachers at the school feel they have been treated shoddily and are concerned about finding future employment in the city.’
  • ‘And why should the human reproductive system be so shoddily designed?’
  • ‘It gives them a different status, I'd think, than some shoddily tacked together apartment house in the Marina, knowingly built on a fault line.’
  • ‘That's because the first version of Shakespeare's Hamlet sold by booksellers was a pirated copy, a shoddily written rip-off not authorised by the Bard.’