Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Carelessly done or arranged.
- adjective Careless or negligent: synonym: sloppy.
- adjective Archaic Wearing shoes with the heel worn down.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.
- adjective Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Done
poorly or tooquickly ;slapdash . - adjective obsolete Wearing
slippers or similarly openshoes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by great carelessness
Etymologies
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Examples
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Judges have cited his firm for what they call slipshod work that, in some cases, was followed by the dismissal of foreclosure actions.
NYT > Home Page By JOHN SCHWARTZ 2011
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Judges have cited his firm for what they call slipshod work that, in some cases, was followed by the dismissal of foreclosure actions.
NYT > Home Page By JOHN SCHWARTZ 2011
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Di Luca gave other examples of what he termed slipshod, reckless or misleading statements.
Thestar.com - Home Page Peter Small 2011
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Selling assets does not solve the problem, except in a very short-term slipshod accounting sense.
Japan's Debt Conundrum Michael Cucek 2010
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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.
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Let's start using "slipshod" to mean any activity which is not an end in itself.
Boing Boing 2008
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You'd bomb the LSAT with that kind of slipshod logic.
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I guess behind this is the fear that letting go of things will lead to the kind of slipshod work that surrounds us.
Not My Job K. A. Laity 2007
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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.
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He is kind of slipshod in his mode of tackling, wanting finish, but nevertheless a dangerous man to meet in a charge.
Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches David Drummond Bone
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