Ramshackle vs Shoddy - What's the difference?
ramshackle | shoddy |
In disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.
* Thackeray
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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 ramshackle and shoddy
is that ramshackle is in disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles 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.ramshackle
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There came my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach.
- They stayed in a ramshackle cabin on the beach.
- He entered the ramshackle bus, and was driven a long distance through very sandy streets to the hotel on the St. Lawrence.
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Synonyms
* (in disrepair or disorder) bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, rickety, ruinous, rundown, tatterdemalion, tumbledownshoddy
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 ”.