slipshod

Example Sentences

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And it’s merely one example of the bill’s slipshod construction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

But she still objected to her colleagues’ slipshod way of killing it prematurely over the shadow docket.

From Slate • Sep. 22, 2025

The court heard the workmanship shown by the gang had been "slipshod" and dangerous in quality.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2025

But if regulations are slipshod, a plutonium-producing gamble in a warhead-hungry world could lead to incalculable losses — at a speed far faster than that of our melting glaciers.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2024

Ortiz went to see the piece and was taken aback; it was, to his mind, clearly a fake, full of contradictory and slipshod elements.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell