slipshod

• “Di Luca gave other examples of what he termed slipshod, reckless or misleading statements.”

  Thestar.com - Home Page

• “Judges have cited his firm for what they call slipshod work that, in some cases, was followed by the dismissal of foreclosure actions.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “Selling assets does not solve the problem, except in a very short-term slipshod accounting sense.”

  Forbes: Japan's Debt Conundrum

• “They go shuffling along, precisely as if their shoes were down at the heel -- "slipshod" -- and they could not lift up their feet in consequence.”

  How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies

• “Let's start using "slipshod" to mean any activity which is not an end in itself.”

  Boing Boing

• “You'd bomb the LSAT with that kind of slipshod logic.”

  Melissa Lafsky: The "Lazy Man" Crisis

• “I guess behind this is the fear that letting go of things will lead to the kind of slipshod work that surrounds us.”

  Not My Job

• “And they're saying it's not a question if it's as big as Dulles or National, it's a question that BP, which is operating Prudhoe, will be operating ANWR, and you've got the same kind of slipshod management.”

  CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2001

• “He is kind of slipshod in his mode of tackling, wanting finish, but nevertheless a dangerous man to meet in a charge.”

  Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches

• “There is a point of view from which it is folly to hold a poet responsible even for his own poetry, and when _Endymion_ was spoken of as 'slipshod' Keats could reply, 'That it is so is no fault of mine ....”

  The Bibliotaph and Other People

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