How To Use Slipshod In A Sentence
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So I went down to the slipshod liquor store in my neighborhood, the one with the fiberglass between myself and the counterperson, and picked out a shot-sized bottle of the booze.
Rum Butternut Ice Cream
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You're too slipshod about your presentation.
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such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable
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Sylvester cites an example of two architectural plots recently developed, one of high quality traditional Chinese houses, the other an inferior and slipshod effort at American villas.
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He'd looked in them years ago in case his father or brother ( slipshod men) had missed important papers.
DOLL'S EYES
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I followed the Nixon Watergate stories breathlessly, but the Post has become much too comfortable with error and slipshod (stenographic) reporting.
Matthew Yglesias » A Suggested Correction for George Will
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One particular area of slipshod practice, at both the federal and provincial level, was taxation (there were many others).
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It swung open; the American had always been run in a slipshod way, even before standards had declined generally.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public-house on Saffron Hill.
Oliver Twist
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Dad was not in favor of spending time on books made a rough and slipshod way.
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So far as my imperfect hearing can ascertain, he has been instructing the jury that they may utterly dismiss from their minds my highly ingenious plea of inability to offer any other kind of matrimony than a polygamous union -- surely, a very, very slipshod off-hand method of disposing of such a nice sharp quillet of the Law! ...
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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I also curse my lack of preparedness, preferring in my slipshod diva manner to leave all decorating and shopping to the last minute.
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slipshod spelling
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He fails in his duty if his investigation is superficial, slipshod or perfunctory.
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The slipshod nature of so much of Kilmarnock's efforts throughout the afternoon was toe-curling.
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He showed stronger mettle than had been allowed him; bore a manlier part than was commonly ascribed to the slovenly slipshod habiliments and the aspects in which benignancy and vacillation seemed to struggle for the ascendancy.
Marse Henry : an autobiography,
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We haven't got a clue, but that's nothing some ingenious guess-work, slipshod plotting and extraordinary coincidence can't take care of.
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In 1905, Elbert Hubbard wrote in the Leavenworth Times of Kansas that ‘The girls at a Fred Harvey place never look dowdy, frowsy, tired, slipshod or overworked.’
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Having witnessed the slipshod management here, it is not surprising the programmes they run result in little success.
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Colonel Cathcart was a slick, successful , slipshod, unhappy man of thirty - six .
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But that doesn't excuse the paper's slipshod reasoning.
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I know I'm intelligent, but my schooling's been slipshod at best, and I'm completely undisciplined.
KISS AN ANGEL
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I guess behind this is the fear that letting go of things will lead to the kind of slipshod work that surrounds us.
Not My Job
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The movie took a clever tack - as the crew deals with the perils their slipshod masters have dealt them, you bond with the crew and unite with them against those fools in Moscow.
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Judges have cited his firm for what they call slipshod work that, in some cases, was followed by the dismissal of foreclosure actions.
NYT > Home Page
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In causerie we are slipshod with our terminology; in fact, variations in terms and equivocations often lend considerable charm to the conversation.
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The second half showed new zest, with the LPO – somewhat unsmiling and slipshod before the interval – responding warmly to the romantic bloom and orchestral flair of the Cinderella ballet excerpts.
LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review
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And they're saying it's not a question if it's as big as Dulles or National, it's a question that BP, which is operating Prudhoe, will be operating ANWR, and you've got the same kind of slipshod management.
CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2001
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Let's start using "slipshod" to mean any activity which is not an end in itself.
Boing Boing
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What Drever hated was some of the slipshod work and poor craftsmanship he saw among his fellow students.
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A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public – house on Saffron Hill.
Oliver Twist
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All this accounts for the nervousness of MPs, even those in ultra-safe seats, who may miss their chance in government because of one slipshod campaign or a knucklehead candidate.
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Greenock's attack was far from hostile and slipshod strokeplay accounted for the demise of the home side.
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Selling assets does not solve the problem, except in a very short-term slipshod accounting sense.
Japan's Debt Conundrum
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The seemingly slipshod construction and use of everyday materials belies the structural sleight-of-hand employed, and it is a startling, playful introduction to the exhibition.
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Colonel Cathcart was a slick, successful , slipshod, unhappy man of thirty - six .
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It is because of this slipshod attitude of the concerned agencies that the antiquities and the relics of distant past are easily accessible to not only all pervasive primates but to anyone who is interested to fritter or wipe out them.
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She also believed that a lot of speech, even on the radio, is too casual and slipshod.
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Construction is slipshod, somehow temporary in appearance.
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I was angry at his slipshod work.
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You can blame it on Star Wars (and the pernicious influence of “Fantasy”) if you want, but it goes back to every crappy drive-in B movie, every half-arsed rip-off of The Twilight Zone, every shitty piece of symbolically formulated kipple that came off the production-line broken and useless to all but the true believers, the geeks who loved it all for the lurid glory of its strangeness, however slipshod.
Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy?
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Fortunately, given the slipshod nature of his ‘scholarship,’ the only scholarly reputation upon which this book inflicts any lasting damage is that of its author.
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They go shuffling along, precisely as if their shoes were down at the heel -- "slipshod" -- and they could not lift up their feet in consequence.
How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Be
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Managers may groan at the prospect of yet another administrative process being foisted on them, but today's procedures for separating organizations and employees are just too slipshod.
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‘There is a rule stipulating that water tanks should be cleaned twice a year, but some managers are failing to do this and others are only doing it in a slipshod way,’ Xu said.
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But she was also formidable; forthrightly and doggedly challenging what she regarded as slipshod thinking or careless expression.
Times, Sunday Times
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If another weekend was ruined for the Fifers' manager by a slipshod performance, his counterpart will hardly be able to wipe the smile off his face.
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A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, accross the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand: first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public-house on Saffron Hill.
Oliver Twist
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In the years thereafter Barr kept up an unrelenting criticism on what he considered slipshod thought among biblical theologians and scholars.
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Slipshod work will never pass muster.
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She also believed that a lot of speech, even on the radio, is too casual and slipshod.
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They also offer some important thoughts about how an article this slipshod managed to get past peer review.
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There is no chance of any aberrant project, slipshod project or a project that hasn't addressed all of the issues that we propose should form a part of the guidelines to slip through the system.
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You'd bomb the LSAT with that kind of slipshod logic.
Melissa Lafsky: The "Lazy Man" Crisis
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He is kind of slipshod in his mode of tackling, wanting finish, but nevertheless a dangerous man to meet in a charge.
Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches
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Couldn't see anything in the dark but our slipshod navigation skills managed to see us through till dawn, when a storm broke.
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In our heart of hearts we think better of the universe, we are secretly convinced that it is not such a slipshod, haphazard affair, that everything in it has meaning.
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Di Luca gave other examples of what he termed slipshod, reckless or misleading statements.
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