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  • Slipshod handling of explosives produced numerous injuries, particularly in the early stages of the excavation when the men were still being schooled in the unruly personalities of primers and dynamite.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Slipshod holes in his management resulted also in the police contingent arriving half an hour late and under strength; and not enough racecards had been ordered from the printers.

    The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

  • Slipshod handling of explosives produced numerous injuries, particularly in the early stages of the excavation when the men were still being schooled in the unruly personalities of primers and dynamite.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Slipshod sourcing in the service neocon ideology has long been a distinguishing trait of your effete warmonger.

    My Protest to the Times: "Effete Warmonger Kristol/Sanitizing Five Years in Iraq" 2008

  • But ironically, as The Hollywood Reporter is reporting tonight, Byrd has not only never seen the film, but his claims that the film is "Riddled With Errors and Slipshod Reporting" apparently refer to a completely different film!

    Brad Friedman: Diebold's Hilarious Fumbled Attempt to Stop HBO Airing of 'Hacking Democracy'! 2008

  • Mel in Cornwall-on-Hudson: "While I doubt the authenticity of the paper evidence submitted, having been in the regular Air Force during Bush's time in the Guard, I can tell you that it reflects true situations with the Guard force then: Slipshod, irresponsible, the home of the privileged and the protected."

    CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2004 2004

  • Slipshod holes in his management resulted also in the police contingent arriving half an hour late and under strength; and not enough racecards had been ordered from the printers.

    Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

  • Slipshod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference, and half-hearted work seem the rule; and no man succeeds, unless by hook or crook, or threat, he forces or bribes other men to assist him; or mayhap, God in His goodness performs a miracle, and sends him an angel of light for an assistant.

    Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter

  • Slipshod and stupid I worked it, dazed by negation and doubt.

    Ballads of a Cheechako 1916

  • Slipshod constructions like this occur throughout the treatise on the Latin tongue, though, it is true, they are almost entirely absent from that on husbandry, which is a much more finished work.

    The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

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