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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

slipshod
    adj 1: marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of
           record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling";
           "sloppy workmanship" [syn: haphazard, slapdash,
           slipshod, sloppy]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Slipshod \Slip"shod`\, a.
   1. Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.
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            The shivering urchin bending as he goes,
            With slipshod heels.                  --Cowper.
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   2. Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.;
      slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or
      loose style of writing.
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            Thy wit shall ne'er go slipshod.      --Shak.
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Thesaurus Results for slipshod:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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, weak

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