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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
slip + shod (“wearing shoes”), originally "wearing slippers", "slovenly" is from early 19th century.
Pronunciation
Adjective
slipshod (comparative more slipshod, superlative most slipshod)
- Done poorly or too quickly; slapdash.
1999 August 22, Johanna McGeary, “Buried Alive”, in Time:Newspapers pointed at greedy contractors who used shoddy materials, slipshod methods and the help of corrupt officials to bypass building codes.
- (obsolete) Wearing slippers or similarly open shoes.
1840, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, Chapter 67:[T]hey wandered up and down hardly remembering the ways untrodden by their feet so long, and crying [...] as they slunk off in their rags, and dragged their slipshod feet along the pavement.
1870, Bret Harte, From a Back Window:That glossy, well-brushed individual, who lets himself in with a latch-key at the front door at night, is a very different being from the slipshod wretch who growls of mornings for hot water at the door of the kitchen.
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Translations
done poorly or too quickly