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• n  the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better
• n  the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction

• With considerable validity, the traditionalists have faulted the innovating physicians for romanticism and for shoddiness of method for the ease with which they advance .
• In the course of the demonstration it unveils miles and miles of that opulent shoddiness, that Brobdingnagian ill taste which is the cinema hall-mark of ignorance.
• What is most troublesome about It's Alive, even beyond its shoddiness, is the cynicism with which it was concocted.

• trashiness
• flimsiness

Quotes

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• Nanni Moretti in Reuters India
  It seems to me that politicians in Italy are more vulnerable and afraid than before,Moretti, who is also a film director, said. "And the newspapers are more and more prisoners of their own hysterical shoddiness."
• Wolfson in Bay Area Reporter
  Am I upset about it? Yes. I am upset, frustrated, angry and shocked at the shoddiness of the opinion,said Wolfson. "But in some ways, that's the silver lining. The opinion is so unpersuasive and such a throw back ...... it's unlikely to be...
• Jackie Speier in San Diego Union Tribune
  If this is representative of the shoddiness and disregard for the value of the taxpayer dollar, then we've got a huge problem in that institution,said Speier, who wants to see an independent department-wide review.