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Meanings of slipshod in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sloppy"
Examples for "sloppy"
1
In fact, the way many of us climb today promotes sloppy belaying.
2
But Mr Lumsden said sloppy paperwork was only part of the problem.
3
The visitors fell behind to a sloppy goal after just nine minutes.
4
New Zealand's work at the back of the breakdown was also sloppy.
5
National MPs said the bill was a lazy, sloppy piece of work.
1
It's all quite early days, and the transition is still quite haphazard.
2
Having secured the sucker, the blacks farm it in their haphazard fashion.
3
They pile on the wood in the usual way, criss-cross and haphazard.
4
Both systems are haphazard and inefficient, and often operate at cross purposes.
5
He added that the entire North Korean missile programme appeared somewhat haphazard.
1
Logan did not allow any spontaneous or slapdash approaches to serious legal matters.
2
Also there was a more slapdash approach to the benefits system.
3
Under other circumstances, that kind of slapdash philosophy might have given me pause.
4
Seen at close quarters, the rendering was extremely casual, almost slapdash.
5
I have no doubt it was the quickest, most slapdash heat-eater ever created.
Usage of slipshod in English
1
A fourth expert called by Republicans called the inquiry slipshod and rushed.
2
Many excuse poor, slipshod work on the plea of lack of time.
3
Sick of slipshod morality, men were sending for their wives and children.
4
Whatever his other shortcomings, Peter Thompson was not a slipshod business man.
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Somehow her heart went out to that careless, slipshod, kindly, Irish Kate.
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And this woman of slipshod English and excited manners imposed upon Nesta!'
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The slipshod nature of the trip and its planning did not help, either.
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The persons that live in an indolent and slipshod way never have any.
9
It was due, in no small way, to some slipshod defending.
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They were far too slipshod in their methods of holding prisoners.
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Even his earliest poetry has in it no false, slipshod sentiment.
12
He had none of the slipshod methods of many men of his type.
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And off she pattered with her slipshod shoes into the house.
14
We find no lying, no inaccuracy, no slipshod business in nature.
15
Mrs. Tucker was not a neat woman, and everything looked neglected and slipshod.
16
But he never, as they sometimes do, falls into loose and slipshod writing.
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Slipshod across language varieties
United Kingdom
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