Slipshod

Adjective

 * 1) Done poorly or too quickly; slapdash.
 * 2) * 1880, Mark Twain, "The Awful German Language":
 * Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.
 * 1) * 1999, Johanna McGeary, "Buried Alive," Time, 22 Aug.:
 * Newspapers pointed at greedy contractors who used shoddy materials, slipshod methods and the help of corrupt officials to bypass building codes.
 * 1)  Wearing slippers or similarly open shoes.
 * 2) * 1840, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, Chapter 67:
 * [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.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:careless

Thesaurus
barbarous, beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, botched, bungling, careless, chintzy, clumsy, deficient, dilapidated, disheveled, disorganized, down-at-heel, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, easy, easygoing, erroneous, faulty, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grubby, half-assed, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, imperfect, impotent, imprecise, improper, in rags, inaccurate, incorrect, indifferent, inexact, infelicitous, informal, lax, lenient, loose, lumpen, messy, mussy, neglected, negligent, overindulgent, overpermissive, permissive, poky, promiscuous, ragged, raggedy, raunchy, relaxed, remiss, ruinous, scraggly, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slapdash, slaphappy, slatternly, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, soft, solecistic, sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered, threadbare, ungrammatic, unkempt, unmeticulous, unneat, unorganized, unrestrained, unsightly, unthorough, untidy, weak

Etymology
slip: + shod:, originally "wearing slippers", "slovenly" is from early 19th century.

Translations

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 * German: schludrig,