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Examples of slipshod in a Sentence
He did a slipshod job.
Her scholarship is slipshod at best.
Recent Examples of slipshod from the Web
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My own opinion is that my body is a slipshod design.
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Arsenal’s pressing is oddly inconsistent, often slipshod but occasionally brilliant.
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Second, the attack was slipshod: The ransoms were to be paid to a single email address, which security experts shut down in short order.
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Children’s librarians, who saw themselves as crusaders for quality in a sector of publishing previously marked by slipshod and cavalier standards, regarded anything redolent of a low-budget series with suspicion.
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Case in point: a single slipshod swipe of this poppin' peach shade created an Insta-worth tango of color.
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But a review of court documents and public records found that his professional persona masked a history of chaotic and slipshod financial dealings, including a 2003 bankruptcy and nearly $400,000 in federal tax liens and other judgments against him.
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Advocates of homeowner’s associations have steadfastly argued for owners’ right to sue over slipshod workmanship on what is often their biggest life investment.
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Three Mile Island will always be famous not as an example of nuclear energy’s economic obsolescence, but of the nuclear industry’s slipshod management practices.
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Origin and Etymology of slipshod
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First Known Use: 1580
in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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Definition of slipshod for English Language Learners
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: very careless or poorly done or made
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Definition of slipshod for Students
: very careless
- Their work was slipshod.
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