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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Marked by carelessness; sloppy or slovenly. See Synonyms at sloppy.
  2. adj. Slovenly in appearance; shabby or seedy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel or having no counters, so that the sole trails after the foot.
  2. Hence Appearing like one in slippers; careless or slovenly in appearance, manners, actions, and the like; loose; slovenly; shuffling: as, a slipshod style of writing.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Done poorly or too quickly; slapdash.
  2. adj. Wearing slippers or similarly open shoes.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.
  2. adj. Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. marked by great carelessness

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