Faulty vs Shoddy - What's the difference?
faulty | shoddy |
Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
(obsolete) At fault, to blame; guilty.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iv:
Being of poor quality or construction
A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.
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* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2003, p. 324:
As adjectives the difference between faulty and shoddy
is that faulty is having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable while shoddy is being of poor quality or construction.As a noun shoddy is
a low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.faulty
English
Adjective
(er)- They replaced the faulty wiring and it has worked fine ever since.
- I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.
- Her faultie Handmayd, which that bale did breede, / Confest, how Philemon her wrought to chaunge her weede.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "faulty" is often applied: goods, equipment, product, wiring, construction, memory, thinking, design, hardware, software, unit, part, component, assumption, reasoning, premise, gene, operation, technique, merchandise, circuit, code, analysis, posture, machine, method, habit, process, communication.Antonyms
* faultlessDerived terms
* faultinessshoddy
English
Adjective
(er)- Do not settle for shoddy knives if you are serious about cooking.
Noun
- To fill contracts for hundreds of thousands of uniforms, textile manufacturers compressed the fibers of recycled woolen goods into a material called “shoddy ”.