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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesde mauvaise qualité
Pronunciation / Transliteration: de mau-vaise qua-li-té
"Il a refusé de payer pour ce travail de mauvaise qualité."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
1 sense- 1
Badly made or done; of poor quality.
"He refused to pay for the shoddy work on his roof."
Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Originally referring to a fabric made from shredded wool waste (around the early 19th century, from 'shod', past participle of 'shoddy' or 'shed'), it later came to mean inferior or cheap quality generally.
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de mauvaise qualité
Transliteration: de mau-vaise qua-li-té
"Il a refusé de payer pour ce travail de mauvaise qualité."
minderwertig
Transliteration: minderwertig
"Wir können keine minderwertigen Materialien verwenden."
scadente
Transliteration: scadente
"Questo tavolo è fatto con materiali scadenti."
chapucero
Transliteration: chapucero
"El servicio de atención al cliente fue bastante chapucero."
xing ling
Transliteration: xing ling
"O produto que comprei era de qualidade muito inferior."
घटिया
Transliteration: ghatiya
"यह कुर्सी बहुत घटिया सामग्री से बनी है।"
粗制滥造的
Transliteration: cū zhì làn zào de
"这家公司生产的都是粗制滥造的产品。"
조잡한
Transliteration: jojaphan
"그들은 조잡한 물건을 팔아서 비난을 받았다."
ずさんな
Transliteration: zusan na
"彼の仕事はいつもずさんだ。"
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