slipshod
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8.1
- adjective
- /ˈslɪpˌʃɒd/
:
descuidado
- Nobody wants to do slipshod work on an attorney's car.
- slipshod job
- slipshod paperwork
- slipshod work
Examples
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Oh, and Thomas, you've been a slipshod sailor and a poor excuse for a soldier.
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- As police inspector, I give you my word, the case will be investigated in a very slipshod manner.
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How important can voting be if we do such a slipshod job of managing the process?
Blog text (20) -
So, like a lot of people, our housework can be totally slipshod over the week.
Blog text (34) -
As opposed to a slipshod documentary with an agenda?
Blog text (1) -
The administrator had apparently skimped on that, probably hiring programmers just out of training who'd done a slipshod job.
Fiction book (1998) -
And we have, under the rubric of academic freedom, tolerated every slipshod, quick-fix approach to education imaginable.
Academic text (1991) -
Magicians are generally supportive of each other, but arrogance is repaid with indifference, and slipshod work with harsh criticism.
Fiction book (1990) -
Many of the problems stem from slipshod record-keeping that prevents anyone from generating reliable reports.
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Marisol watched a uniformed guard do a slipshod job of sweeping shards of glass into a dustpan.
Synonyms
155
2.0
Untidy and done without care
58
5.3
Not taking proper care and causing harm or risk
16
7.2
No clear order or plan and often messy
4
6.1
Made worse because someone handled it badly
3
7.5
Made quickly without care
2
5.9
Ruined because someone did the job badly
1
6.8
Clumsy and not skilled, often making mistakes
Doing things in an awkward, clumsy way
Antonyms
How Careless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Slipshod comes from the parts slip and shod, where shod means 'wearing shoes' and slip suggests 'sliding on quickly'. Picture someone who quickly 'slips' into loose shoes and then works in a hurry and without care, so slipshod means done in a careless or untidy way.