as in neglectful
poorly done or carelessly made
He did a slipshod job. Her research is slipshod at best.
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More than anything, the defense argued that the investigation as a whole had been slipshod, and that Moye had become a scapegoat for detectives who didn’t have better answers.
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Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
Their nests, those altars of parental solicitude proudly built by other birds, are often slipshod affairs.
—Christoph Irmscher, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
But it too has been accused of slipshod operations by multiple sources.
—Wil Sands, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
Ancient Apocalypse is positively quaint by comparison with the paranoid, slipshod dreck filling many cable channels.
—Jason Colavito, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
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Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
Their nests, those altars of parental solicitude proudly built by other birds, are often slipshod affairs.
—Christoph Irmscher, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
But it too has been accused of slipshod operations by multiple sources.
—Wil Sands, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
Ancient Apocalypse is positively quaint by comparison with the paranoid, slipshod dreck filling many cable channels.
—Jason Colavito, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
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“Slipshod.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slipshod. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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