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slipshod

[ slip-shod ]

adjective

  1. careless, untidy, or slovenly:

    slipshod work.

    Synonyms: messy, lax, sloppy, loose

  2. down-at-heel; seedy; shabby.
  3. Archaic. wearing slippers or loose shoes, especially ones worn at the heel.


slipshod

/ ˈslɪpˌʃɒd /

adjective

  1. (of an action) negligent; careless
  2. (of a person's appearance) slovenly; down-at-heel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈslipˌshoddiness, noun
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Other Words From

  • slipshodness slipshoddi·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of slipshod1

First recorded in 1570–80; slip 1 + shod
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Word History and Origins

Origin of slipshod1

C16: from slip 1+ shod
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Example Sentences

That, combined with the process behind the audit — partisan, slipshod, and conspiratorial — makes for a deeply concerning precedent, particularly as other states take up similar efforts.

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The stalkerware was hidden from device owners, but was fully exposed to hackers who exploited the company’s slipshod security.

Virtually all of the data he claimed to have collected was either slipshod, or, more often yet, downright fabricated.

What a shame that a slipshod approach by the Obama administration to such a crucial issue has put it all at risk.

There is no other remedy for careless, slipshod sentence-making so effective as the construction of many periodic sentences.

In the first place, nearly all women's work dealing with feminine subjects is in a special degree disfigured by slipshod writing.

Instead of seeking how to construct a perfect dwelling place, these slipshod builders spent most of their hours in courtship.

They moved along in rather a slipshod way and sounded like soft slippers or feet in stockings.

Too many youths enter upon their business in a languid, half-hearted way, and do their work in a slipshod manner.

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