shoddy

Adjective

• designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
  • the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm
    
  • deliberately deceptive packaging
    
  • a misleading similarity
    
  • statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading
    
  • shoddy business practices
    

• of inferior workmanship and materials
  • mean little jerry-built houses
    

• cheap and shoddy
  • cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob- Judith Crist
    

Noun

• reclaimed wool fiber

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  deceptive , misleading , jerry-built , cheapjack , tawdry