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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
slipshod
adj : marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of
record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling";
"sloppy workmanship" [syn: haphazard, slapdash, sloppy]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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