Shoddy: alternatives and connections

Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.

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Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.

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The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- c…

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Despicableness.

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Despicableness.

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Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

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Filthy; foul; dirty.

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Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.

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