Slipshod

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slipshod \Slip"shod`\, a.
     1. Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.
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              The shivering urchin bending as he goes,
              With slipshod heels.                  --Cowper.


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     2. Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.;
        slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or
        loose style of writing.
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              Thy wit shall ne'er go slipshod.      --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slipshod
       adj : marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of
             record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling";
             "sloppy workmanship" [syn: {haphazard}, {slapdash}, {sloppy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "slipshod":
     barbarous, beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, botched, bungling,
     careless, chintzy, clumsy, deficient, dilapidated, disheveled,
     disorganized, down-at-heel, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed,
     easy, easygoing, erroneous, faulty, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy,
     grubby, half-assed, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss,
     imperfect, impotent, imprecise, improper, in rags, inaccurate,
     incorrect, indifferent, inexact, infelicitous, informal, lax,
     lenient, loose, lumpen, messy, mussy, neglected, negligent,
     overindulgent, overpermissive, permissive, poky, promiscuous,
     ragged, raggedy, raunchy, relaxed, remiss, ruinous, scraggly,
     scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slapdash,
     slaphappy, slatternly, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish,
     soft, solecistic, sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered, threadbare,
     ungrammatic, unkempt, unmeticulous, unneat, unorganized,
     unrestrained, unsightly, unthorough, untidy, weak