in rags vs shoddy

in rags

prep
  • Very poor or lowly. 

  • Dressed in very old, torn clothes. 

shoddy

adj
  • Of poor quality or construction 

noun
  • A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool. 

How often have the words in rags and shoddy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )