how to pronounce shoddy

/ˈʃɒd.i/

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shoddy is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of shoddy in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… to that shoddy piece of legislation to …”

meaning of shoddy

Shoddy means of poor quality, of inferior workmanship.

shoddy frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word shoddy occurs in english on average 1.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics shoddy can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that shoddy can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;