How to Use slipshod in a Sentence

slipshod

adjective

• He did a slipshod job.
• Her scholarship is slipshod at best.
• Their records overflowed with slipshod hooks and slurred wordplay.
  — Jason Heller, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2019
• There’s a good chance Pruitt’s first season in Knoxville will be smoother than the slipshod process through which the school settled on him as Butch Jones’s successor, but not by much.
  — Chris Johnson, SI.com, 6 July 2018
• Several of the vocalists were off pitch, the production values were slipshod, and Kevin in the second row needs to stop picking his nose.
  — Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2019
• Second, the attack was slipshod: The ransoms were to be paid to a single email address, which security experts shut down in short order.
  — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 30 June 2017
• Case in point: a single slipshod swipe of this poppin' peach shade created an Insta-worth tango of color.
  — Sophie Wirt, Allure, 10 Oct. 2017
• Problems can arise from slipshod product testing and the undetected presence of THC.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2019
• Hanken thinks Thorius tolerates slipshod wrist bones because the animals’ bodies are so small that the forces on their joints are minuscule.
  — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
• Where France continues to go wrong, apparently, is in its slipshod enforcement of justice and fairness for all people.
  — WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
• The consumer bureau says slipshod loan servicing—the business of counseling borrowers on their options and sending them monthly bills—is largely to blame.
  — Shahien Nasiripour, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2017
• His discourse on the platform—both strategic and slipshod—has for years earned him free publicity for his other wildly ambitious business ventures.
  — Laura Forman, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
• Its response to demands for more content moderation have been slipshod and inconsistent, but are still better than the alternative of doing nothing.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2022
• So while some failing programs are simply bad programs, providing slipshod training and credentials with little value in the labor market, others may be very good, but are just too expensive.
  — Kevin Carey, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
• As internet use took off at universities elsewhere in the world, academics at Colombian institutions had to settle for a sort of slipshod internet replacement.
  — Victoria Stunt, Quartz, 15 Oct. 2019
• My few newfound rituals, meanwhile, have become reassuring time-tellers, guiding the otherwise slipshod structure of my days.
  — Lindsey Tramuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Apr. 2020
• Although immensely lucrative, his licensing methods were often viewed as excessive, slipshod and greedy.
  — Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2020
• The privatization program has been plagued in recent years by widespread complaints about neglected or slipshod repairs, unsafe conditions and, especially, mold problems.
  — John Ismay, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2019
• The reasons were slipshod processing by private loan servicers and tight eligibility criteria.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2020
• Advocates of homeowner’s associations have steadfastly argued for owners’ right to sue over slipshod workmanship on what is often their biggest life investment.
  — John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 5 June 2017
• Despite facing backlash, some communities known for botched restorations have actually managed to capitalize on these slipshod repairs.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Nov. 2020
• Franco, racing through an 85-minute marathon of misery, resorts to a kind of dramatic shorthand — at once viscerally gripping and intellectually slipshod — that leans heavily on other frames of cinematic reference.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
• Three Mile Island will always be famous not as an example of nuclear energy’s economic obsolescence, but of the nuclear industry’s slipshod management practices.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 30 May 2017
• Children’s librarians, who saw themselves as crusaders for quality in a sector of publishing previously marked by slipshod and cavalier standards, regarded anything redolent of a low-budget series with suspicion.
  — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 12 Jan. 2017
• The history of nuclear power in America is one of rushed and slipshod engineering, unwarranted assurances of public safety, political influence and financial chicanery, inept and duplicitous regulators, and mismanagement on a grand scale.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2022
• Arsenal’s pressing is oddly inconsistent, often slipshod but occasionally brilliant.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 22 Jan. 2018

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