slipshod

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1. Done poorly or too quickly; slapdash.

   Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.

   1880, Mark Twain, The Awful German Language

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   Newspapers pointed at greedy contractors who used shoddy materials, slipshod methods and the help of corrupt officials to bypass building codes.

   1999 August 22, Johanna McGeary, “Buried Alive”, in Time

2. obsoleteWearing slippers or similarly open shoes.

   [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.

   1840, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, Chapter 67

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   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.

   1870, Bret Harte, From a Back Window