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Slipshod


Definition:

  • (a.) Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.
  • (a.) Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or loose style of writing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) City enjoyed their advantage for too little time and it was a pity their rear guard was so slipshod as the Spaniard’s goal was a beauty.
  • (2) Lord Bingham said: "Weight should ordinarily be given to the professional judgment of an editor or journalist in the absence of some indication that it was made in a casual, cavalier, careless or slipshod manner."
  • (3) Spurs seem to go behind even when they win – as well as getting biffed on the chin in heavy defeats by Chelsea and Liverpool – so for all the credit they deserve in fighting back for a draw, they bring ridicule for the slipshod manner in which they get themselves into a hole.
  • (4) He noted that an estimated 14% of suspects freed from Guantánamo returned to the battlefield, but blamed that on the Bush administration's slipshod process of selecting which to let loose.
  • (5) Further slipshod marking meant Lars Stindl was in yards of space, and this time Hart was given no chance and City were in serious trouble.
  • (6) John Keats described it as a “splashy, rainy, misty ... floody, muddy slipshod County”.
  • (7) Indeed, given the slipshod nature of their policies, the new government has thinking to do as well.
  • (8) As seen in these factors, the somatic patients were relatively easy-going, slipshod, and accepting of change.
  • (9) The city’s financing had become so slipshod and haphazard that it no longer even maintained an official set of books.
  • (10) The Lords is another matter: the slipshod way in which peers are created warps the operation of parliament.
  • (11) But industry problems have persisted in the Arctic, including slipshod maintenance of key parts of the Trans Alaska Pipeline and North Slope oil facilities.
  • (12) Our analysis finds previously undisclosed evidence of slipshod use of data and apparent efforts to cover that up.
  • (13) If there was going to be much fun they really needed to be slipshod, bloated with the complacency of millionaires.
  • (14) But the display against Stoke was as slipshod as it had been in the 2-1 home defeat by Norwich City , suggesting the side have lost faith in Van Gaal and he admitted: “We didn’t dare to play our football.” But asked if he had no ideas left of how to raise his squad for Chelsea’s visit, Van Gaal said: “No.

Slipshoe


Definition:

  • (n.) A slipper.

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