shoddily

1. 1.

   in a shoddy manner

   “a shoddily built house”

   “he treated her shoddily”

Questions about shoddily

What does shoddily mean?

shoddily means "in a shoddy manner".

How many syllables are in shoddily?

shoddily has 3 syllables and divides as shod-di-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is shoddily a common word?

shoddily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.