The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SHODDY
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result SHODDY
- Wearing shoes dirty on the outside and badly made
- Cast consuming rum of poor-quality
- Poor-quality pitch — what's unusual in that?
- Tatty, blingy daughters take wife’s place
- Short comprises rum of poor quality
- Unusual, externally coy, cheap and nasty
- Tawdry, casual fling is enthralling!
- Warily reluctant to drink rum of poor quality
- Cautious about rum that’s poor quality
- Chuck set about old clergyman? That’s badly done!
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The straight part
We know that "poor quality" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case poor quality = shoddy.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does SHODDY mean?
SHODDY noun- A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.
- Worthless goods.
- Vulgar pretence or sham.
- Of poor quality or construction
- Pretentious, sham, counterfeit
- Ambitious by reason of newly-acquired wealth; nouveau riche