slipshod

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I'll settle for righteous and rightful ends to the characters 'journeys -- I've been desperately hoping for interesting, show-not-tell answers to the Big Questions, but I fear those will be rushed, slipshod, and unsatisfactory.

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

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  • Anything more dirty, slipshod, and wretched could hardly be imagined. —  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V2
  • Stimulus won't save TUSD jobs TUSD record-keeping slipshod, audit finds Warnings due Friday of likely layoffs for hundreds in TUSDAudit reveals problems with TUSD accounting and property control 2 über-spellers share common love Schools faulted for handling of money Tucson High scientists shine Student of the week: Garrett RetzerTUSD to expand gifted programEconomy affecting schoolkids
  • Your mind will slip down; it will refuse to exert itself; it will become as slovenly, slipshod, and inactive as your body. —  Pushing to the Front
  • Incidentally Doris was thinking, just a little, of how well her gown and turban became her, for she had determined never to let herself become frowsy and slipshod--Well--she had not to look far for her antithesis Why, Mr. Annersley Pete flushed, the victim of several emotions. —  The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
  • It was almost impossible for Mr Arnold to be slipshod--I do not mean in the sense of the composition books, which is mostly an unimportant sense, but in one quite different; and he never, as Mr Froude sometimes did, contented himself with correct but ordinary writing. —  Matthew Arnold
 

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