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Hardly systematic
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slipshod
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Word definitions for slipshod in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slipshod \Slip"shod`\, a. Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel. The shivering urchin bending as he goes, With slipshod heels. --Cowper. Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Done poorly or too quickly; slapdash. 2 (context obsolete English) Wearing slippers or similarly open shoes.
Usage examples of slipshod.
A book can be produced in a slipshod manner or it can have a repulsive book jacket, or include blurbs that give away the plot or clearly indicate that the blurb writer didn follow the plot.
The newcomer was a little slipshod girl in dirty curlpapers, who informed me that her master was sorry he could not see me that day as he was particularly engaged, but if I would do him the favour of calling to-morrow, at the same hour, he should be at leisure, etc.
It is the layered accumulation of successive, sporadic efforts, of timesaving, moneysaving slipshod shortcuts.
Her grasp of detail quickly winnowed the clutter of merchant brigs: the slipshod ones with their sails tied in gaskets, and others run by more rigorous captains, rolling neat at their moorings with yardarms varnished and stripped.
O’Brien looked back down at his station with renewed aggravation and cursed the Cardie race silently but resoundingly—not for their atrocities but for their slipshod technology.