slopwork

plural slopworks · alternative slop-work · alternative slop work

1. archaicuncountableusuallyThe manufacture of slops (cheap ready-made clothing).
2. archaicuncountableusuallyClothing of this kind.
3. archaicfigurativelyuncountableusuallyHasty, slovenly work of any kind.

   This sort of literary slop-work will not suffice for your walking in the roads of life to any good purpose. It is bad work. It is scrubby work.

   1883, Hargrave Jennings, The Childishness and Brutality of the Time

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   [Thomas] Carlyle continued as busy as ever at what he called 'the despicable craft of reviewing,' but doing his very best with it. No slop-work ever dropped from his pen.

   1882, James Anthony Froude, “A.D. 1829. Æt. 34.”, in Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795–1835 […], volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 52