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adjective

Slipshod adj.

Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel. "The shivering urchin bending as he goes, With slipshod heels."

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."

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Etymology of 'Slipshod'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Slipshod" Quotes from Famous Books

... a thorough education," was the answer, "whether or not you ultimately become a writer. This education is indispensable for whatever career you select, and it must not be slipshod or sketchy. You should ...

— Martin Eden • Jack London

... slipshod, evasive, hypocritical work? Can you afford to shirk, or make-believe or practise pretense in any act of life? No, no; for all the time you are molding yourself into a deformity, and drifting away from the Divine. What the world does and says about you is ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard

... correctly and vigorously. We are apt in England to class as an "Americanism" every unfamiliar, or too familiar, locution which we do not happen to like. As a matter of fact, there is a pretty lively interchange between the two countries of slipshod and vulgar "journalese;" and as the picturesque reporter is a greater power in America than he is with us, we perhaps import more than we export of this particular commodity. But there can be no rational doubt, I think, that the English language has gained, and is gaining, enormously ...

— America To-day, Observations and Reflections • William Archer

... before anybody came. When at last they did he heard them coming for a long time before the door was opened, heard slipshod steps on shiny linoleum, and a husky ...

— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres

... consisted principally in his wonderful capacity to labor for perfection in the most minute detail. And yet most ambitious misfits are unwilling to work hard. Their products always show lack of finish due to slipshod methods, unwillingness to spend time, to take pains to bring what they do up to a standard of beautiful perfection, so far as perfection is humanly possible. Those who are mentally lazy do not belong in an artistic vocation. ...

— Analyzing Character • Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb

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