Adjective : slipshod work. From Dictionary.com.
Judges have cited his firm for what they call slipshod work that, in some cases, was followed by the dismissal of foreclosure actions. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Selling assets does not solve the problem, except in a very short-term slipshod accounting sense. From Wordnik.com. [Japan's Debt Conundrum] Reference
Let's start using "slipshod" to mean any activity which is not an end in itself. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
I guess behind this is the fear that letting go of things will lead to the kind of slipshod work that surrounds us. From Wordnik.com. [Not My Job] Reference
He is kind of slipshod in his mode of tackling, wanting finish, but nevertheless a dangerous man to meet in a charge. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches] Reference
Taylor described as "slipshod" the mitigation plan to dampen the impact of the highway project on the species in the preserve. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"Does this sound like the kind of slipshod obvious crime I'd commit. From Wordnik.com. [Tek Kill]
John Wayne wouldn’t have stood for this kind of slipshod “artistry”!. From Wordnik.com. [Regretsy – Your Right] Reference
But this is sophistical reasoning -- slipshod philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference
He can't bear anything slipshod in the way of a statement. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Pao-yü speedily walked out of the door with slipshod shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
But like so much else in these slipshod bills, it goes too far. From Wordnik.com. [Losing Your Right To Sue?] Reference
They were far too slipshod in their methods of holding prisoners. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference
I can't have such slipshod, no-account names for my hands 'children. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference
We were discussing a slipshod demolition going on across the street. From Wordnik.com. [Tina Traster: One's Man's Hubris Is Another Man's Flood] Reference
Somehow her heart went out to that careless, slipshod, kindly, Irish. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
He was seated in an easy chair, and fanned by a pretty slipshod girl. From Wordnik.com. [General Gordon Saint and Soldier] Reference
Ireland a slipshod or unprepared sermon may meet with indulgent charity. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
The FBI also has to worry about reports that its lab has become slipshod. From Wordnik.com. [Judgment Day] Reference
A slipshod translation can take 4 minutes per page; true accuracy requires 15. From Wordnik.com. [Translate This] Reference
Such a slovenly set you never saw, -- the women with frizzled hair and slipshod shoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster] Reference
Pao-yü, wearing a house-dress and slipshod shoes, was reclining on the bed, a book in hand. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
It seemed slipshod and hurried, and, worse, it was entirely too mysterious and melodramatic. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
From the advantage of retrospection, you can say what you want about slipshod detective work. From Wordnik.com. [Attrition] Reference
She looked at the half-sovereign again, and then set off at a shuffling slipshod trot after them. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
But while such slipshod writing is singularly uninteresting, it may also be censured as inaccurate. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
When it comes to caring for your camera, are you a fastidious photographer or a slipshod shutterbug?. From Wordnik.com. [Your digital camera: Avoid these common goofs] Reference
What is less familiar is the fact that nearly every Asian country betrays a similarly slipshod memory. From Wordnik.com. [At War With History] Reference
With reference to the Warsaw episode, the slipshod de Mirecourt says that she was dancing there in 1839. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
Boxer is caught in the intellectual chaos created by the Supreme Court's slipshod 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara Boxer in Context] Reference
The ways were foul and narrow; the shops and houses wretched; the people half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
Their sentences are slipshod, their punctuation and spelling beyond criticism, and their manuscript repulsive. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
Thackeray was a Titan -- well, look at his slipshod style in places, his careless grammar, his constant tautology. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
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