slipshod

slipshod
    adj 1: marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of
           record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling";
           "sloppy workmanship" [syn: {haphazard}, {slapdash},
           {slipshod}, {sloppy}]
    

Slipshod \Slip"shod`\, a.
   1. Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.
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            The shivering urchin bending as he goes,
            With slipshod heels.                  --Cowper.
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   2. Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.;
      slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or
      loose style of writing.
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            Thy wit shall ne'er go slipshod.      --Shak.
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90 Moby Thesaurus words for "slipshod":
      barbarous, beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, botched, bungling,
      careless, chintzy, clumsy, deficient, dilapidated, disheveled,
      disorganized, down-at-heel, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed,
      easy, easygoing, erroneous, faulty, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy,
      grubby, half-assed, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss,
      imperfect, impotent, imprecise, improper, in rags, inaccurate,
      incorrect, indifferent, inexact, infelicitous, informal, lax,
      lenient, loose, lumpen, messy, mussy, neglected, negligent,
      overindulgent, overpermissive, permissive, poky, promiscuous,
      ragged, raggedy, raunchy, relaxed, remiss, ruinous, scraggly,
      scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slapdash,
      slaphappy, slatternly, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish,
      soft, solecistic, sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered, threadbare,
      ungrammatic, unkempt, unmeticulous, unneat, unorganized,
      unrestrained, unsightly, unthorough, untidy, weak