SHODDINESS Synonyms

• unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

• the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant

• the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

• the state of being defective

• lack of an adequate quantity or number

• a lack of competence

• unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate

• the state of being inferior

• an inferior quality

• the quality of being a competitive disadvantage

• a lack of competence

• (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally

• lack of an adequate quantity or number

• ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding

• a person of second-rate ability or value

• a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing

• an unjust act

• marked by great carelessness

• the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water

• a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for

• the quality of not being careful or taking pains

• falsely emotional in a maudlin way

• falling short of some prescribed norm

• the property of being cohesive and sticky

• tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar

• not giving satisfaction

• the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction

• the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better