shoddy

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Made of or containing inferior material.
• adjective Of poor quality or craft.
• adjective Rundown; shabby.
• adjective Dishonest or reprehensible.
• adjective Conspicuously and cheaply imitative.
• noun Woolen yarn made partially or entirely from scraps or used clothing.
• noun Cloth made from or containing such yarn.
• noun Something of inferior quality; a cheap imitation.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A woolen material felted together, composed of old woolen cloth torn into shreds, the rejected threads from the weaving of finer cloths, and the like. Com-pare mungo.
• noun The inferior cloth made from this substance; hence, any unsubstantial and almost worthless goods.
• noun A person or thing combining assumption of superior excellence with actual inferiority; pretense; sham; vulgar assumption.
• Made of shoddy: as, shoddy cloth. Hence Of a trashy or inferior character: as, shoddy literature.
• Pretending to an excellence not possessed; pretentious; sham; counterfeit; ambitious for prominence or influence not deserved by character or breeding, but aspired to on account of newly acquired wealth: as, a shoddy aristocracy. See I., 2.
• To convert into shoddy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A fibrous material obtained by “deviling,” or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See mungo.
• noun Fluffy, fibrous waste from wool carding, worsted spinning, or weaving of woolens.
• noun A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy.
• adjective Made wholly or in part of shoddy; containing shoddy; ; hence, colloquially, not genuine; sham; pretentious.
• adjective of poor quality or inferior workmanship.
• adjective visibly worn or damaged from use; shabby.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Being of poor quality or construction
• noun A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
• noun reclaimed wool fiber
• adjective of inferior workmanship and materials
• adjective cheap and shoddy