Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.
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Slipshod
//ˈslɪp.ʃɑd//
Synonyms for "slipshod" (114 found)
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Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (34)
Related words (57)
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Translations
21 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- небрежен adj (done poorly or too quickly)
Finnish
1 entries- puolihuolimaton adj (done poorly or too quickly)
French
1 entries- bâclé adj (done poorly or too quickly)
German
2 entries- schlampig adj (done poorly or too quickly)
- schludrig adj (done poorly or too quickly)
Greek
2 entries- κακοφτιαγμένος adj (done poorly or too quickly)
- κακότεχνος adj (done poorly or too quickly)
Māori
4 entries- hakirara adj (done poorly or too quickly)
- hakurara adj (done poorly or too quickly)
- kōkau adj (done poorly or too quickly)
- mākūare adj (done poorly or too quickly)
Polish
3 entries- niechlujny adj (done poorly or too quickly)
- niedbały adj (done poorly or too quickly)
- niestaranny adj (done poorly or too quickly)
Russian
1 entries- небрежный adj (done poorly or too quickly)
Spanish
4 entries- burdo adj (done poorly or too quickly)
- chapucero adj (done poorly or too quickly)
- descuidado adj (done poorly or too quickly)
- pastrano adj (done poorly or too quickly)
Ukrainian
1 entries- недбалий adj (done poorly or too quickly)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Newspapers pointed at greedy contractors who used shoddy materials, slipshod methods and the help of corrupt officials to bypass building codes.
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[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.
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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.
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