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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slipshod
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The research project was shelved due to slipshod management.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod storytelling in the New Testament.
▪ Noades blamed unprofessionalism, a slipshod approach and complacency for the club's disappointing start to the season.
▪ Scientists may be more slipshod than they care to admit about replication and falsification.
▪ This is a dangerous time to be slipshod or careless about anything, for your mistakes will be ruthlessly and embarrassingly exposed.
▪ To be slipshod is to be hounded, which is the last thing he wants.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slipshod

Slipshod \Slip"shod`\, a.

  1. Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.

    The shivering urchin bending as he goes, With slipshod heels.
    --Cowper.

  2. Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or loose style of writing.

    Thy wit shall ne'er go slipshod.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slipshod

1570s, "wearing slippers or loose shoes," from slip (v.) + shod "wearing shoes." Sense of "slovenly, careless" is from 1815, probably from the notion of appearing like one in slippers, or whose shoes are down at the heels.

Wiktionary
slipshod

a. 1 Done poorly or too quickly; slapdash. 2 (context obsolete English) Wearing slippers or similarly open shoes.

WordNet
slipshod

adj. marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship" [syn: haphazard, slapdash, sloppy]

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.