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slipshod
CIDE DICTIONARY
slipshod, a.
- Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel. [1913 Webster]"The shivering urchin bending as he goes,
With slipshod heels." [1913 Webster] - Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or loose style of writing. [1913 Webster]"Thy wit shall ne'er go slipshod." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
slipshod, adj.
1 (of speech or writing, a speaker or writer, a method of work, etc.) careless, unsystematic; loose in arrangement.
2 slovenly.
3 having shoes down at heel.
1 (of speech or writing, a speaker or writer, a method of work, etc.) careless, unsystematic; loose in arrangement.
2 slovenly.
3 having shoes down at heel.
THESAURUS
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, weakROGET THESAURUS
slipshod
Feebleness
N feebleness, feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid, colorless, enervated, proposing, prosy, prosaic, unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy- washy, sketchy, slight, careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent), slipshod, slipslop, inexact, puerile, childish, flatulent, rambling.For further exploring for "slipshod" in Webster Dictionary Online