slipshod

How To Use slipshod In A Sentence

• ‘There is a rule stipulating that water tanks should be cleaned twice a year, but some managers are failing to do this and others are only doing it in a slipshod way,’ Xu said.
• A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public – house on Saffron Hill. Oliver Twist
• All this accounts for the nervousness of MPs, even those in ultra-safe seats, who may miss their chance in government because of one slipshod campaign or a knucklehead candidate.
• Greenock's attack was far from hostile and slipshod strokeplay accounted for the demise of the home side.
• Selling assets does not solve the problem, except in a very short-term slipshod accounting sense. Japan's Debt Conundrum
• The seemingly slipshod construction and use of everyday materials belies the structural sleight-of-hand employed, and it is a startling, playful introduction to the exhibition.
• Colonel Cathcart was a slick, successful , slipshod, unhappy man of thirty - six .
• It is because of this slipshod attitude of the concerned agencies that the antiquities and the relics of distant past are easily accessible to not only all pervasive primates but to anyone who is interested to fritter or wipe out them.
• She also believed that a lot of speech, even on the radio, is too casual and slipshod.
• Construction is slipshod, somehow temporary in appearance.