Even more alarming were the slipshod industrial practices and lax regulatory oversight that allowed it to happen.
Small firms with slipshod standards are being replaced by bigger, better ones.
Despite the owner's presence, service can be a bit slipshod.
Police departments' own internal investigations are secretive or slipshod.
Sometimes the problem leaves the sentence merely awkward or slipshod.
The little-noted measure suddenly gained attention amid questions about some big lenders' slipshod bookkeeping.
And that desire to believe supersedes the slipshod nature of the fabrication.
Haste can make you slipshod, but it can never make you graceful.
Our recruiting efforts have been painfully slipshod.
We cannot afford to be slipshod or to cut corners in the process.
British Dictionary definitions for slipshod
slipshod
/ˈslɪpˌʃɒd/
adjective
1.
(of an action) negligent; careless
2.
(of a person's appearance) slovenly; down-at-heel
Derived Forms
slipshoddiness, slipshodness, noun
Word Origin
C16: from slip1 + shod
Word Origin and History for slipshod
adj.
1570s, "wearing slippers or loose shoes," from slip (v.) + shod "wearing shoes." Sense of "slovenly, careless" is from 1815, probably from the notion of appearing like one in slippers, or whose shoes are down at the heels.