Slipshod

Word SLIPSHOD
Character 8
Hyphenation slip shod
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Slipshod"

What do we mean by slipshod?

Carelessly done or arranged. adjective

Careless or negligent: synonym: sloppy. adjective

Wearing shoes with the heel worn down. adjective

Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel or having no counters, so that the sole trails after the foot.

Hence Appearing like one in slippers; careless or slovenly in appearance, manners, actions, and the like; loose; slovenly; shuffling: as, a slipshod style of writing.

Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel. adjective

Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling. adjective

Done poorly or too quickly; slapdash. adjective

Wearing slippers or similarly open shoes. adjective

Marked by great carelessness adjective

Done poorly or too quickly; slapdash.

Wearing slippers or similarly open shoes.

Poor work, half-assed effort. Urban Dictionary

1)Boring, tedious, crap. 2)Exciting, fun, awesome. Urban Dictionary

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The word "slipshod" in example sentences

Di Luca gave other examples of what he termed slipshod, reckless or misleading statements. ❋ Peter Small (2011)

Judges have cited his firm for what they call slipshod work that, in some cases, was followed by the dismissal of foreclosure actions. ❋ By JOHN SCHWARTZ (2011)

Selling assets does not solve the problem, except in a very short-term slipshod accounting sense. ❋ Michael Cucek (2010)

They go shuffling along, precisely as if their shoes were down at the heel -- "slipshod" -- and they could not lift up their feet in consequence. ❋ Unknown (1847)

Let's start using "slipshod" to mean any activity which is not an end in itself. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You'd bomb the LSAT with that kind of slipshod logic. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I guess behind this is the fear that letting go of things will lead to the kind of slipshod work that surrounds us. ❋ K. A. Laity (2007)

And they're saying it's not a question if it's as big as Dulles or National, it's a question that BP, which is operating Prudhoe, will be operating ANWR, and you've got the same kind of slipshod management. ❋ Unknown (2001)

He is kind of slipshod in his mode of tackling, wanting finish, but nevertheless a dangerous man to meet in a charge. ❋ David Drummond Bone (N/A)

There is a point of view from which it is folly to hold a poet responsible even for his own poetry, and when _Endymion_ was spoken of as 'slipshod' Keats could reply, 'That it is so is no fault of mine .... ❋ Leon H. Vincent (N/A)

I watched, too, with the fascination that things have for an observant boy, the play of his lips -- they were a little oblique, and there was something "slipshod," if one may strain a word so far, about his mouth, so that he lisped and sibilated ever and again and the coming and going of a curious expression, triumphant in quality it was, upon his face as he talked. ❋ Unknown (1906)

I simply worship him, though he is very severe and pulls me up directly I "slipshod," as he calls it; and so far I have literally sung nothing but scales. ❋ Unknown (1886)

America , which represents the major film studios, shot back with a critique of what it called a "slipshod" report by the group, which it said was biased against government incentives. ❋ By MICHAEL CIEPLY (2011)

Tyrrell accused Napoli of repeatedly making "slipshod" filings that misstated how much time workers spent at ground zero or the severity of their illnesses, with few specifics on how the city was to blame. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Taylor described as "slipshod" the mitigation plan to dampen the impact of the highway project on the species in the preserve.

[The plumber's] slipshod [repair] [fell] apart within a day. ❋ Laura (2004)

That [movie] was so [slipshod]. ❋ BackToNormal (2004)

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