| 单词 | slipshod |
| 例句 | When driven with his mates to the new owners’ camp, Buck saw a slipshod and slovenly affair, tent half stretched, dishes unwashed, everything in disorder; also, he saw a woman. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z The lumber was low grade, the carpentry slipshod. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod storytelling in the New Testament. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The other workers had always been so unconcerned, so slipshod. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Franz Kurie, who had come to Berkeley from Yale as a National Research Council fellow, felt the Rad Lab’s experimental procedures were too slipshod to foster serious research on the cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Colonel Cathcart was a slick, successful, slipshod, unhappy man of thirty-six who lumbered when he walked and wanted to be a general. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Ortiz went to see the piece and was taken aback; it was, to his mind, clearly a fake, full of contradictory and slipshod elements. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He talked to informed people, officials, ambassadors; he read reports, even the fine print and figures, while I in my slipshod manner roved about with actors, gypsies, vagabonds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of settling and erosion and downright slipshod construction, they tilted dangerously toward the street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They were slipshod and didn’t much care, so long as they kept out of trouble themselves. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z In our slipshod fashion, we students took notes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Still others want to know something definitive about the slipshod circumstances surrounding Epstein’s apparent suicide in August while he was in custody awaiting federal charges of sex trafficking minors. Review | Netflix’s Jeffrey Epstein docuseries honors his victims and their stories, but the creep still gets away 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z Though I can only read him in translation, I think Dostoyevsky is an extraordinarily clumsy and slipshod writer. John Banville, the Contemporary Novelist Who Avoids Contemporary Novels 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z “Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and system-less, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.” Germans can’t get enough Mark Twain 2013-01-10T22:39:00Z After reading so many slipshod diaries called “novels,” what a pleasure it is to turn the pages of this consummate work of art. Review: ‘The Age of Innocence,’ by Edith Wharton 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The same is true of movies, and this one, anarchic and occasionally slipshod as it may be, was made with enough care to earn the affection of its fans. | 'Get Him to the Greek': Jonah Hill and Russell Brand Star in a New Comedy 2010-06-03T21:56:00Z “Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless and so slippery and elusive to the grasp,” Twain fumed in his 1880 European travelogue “A Tramp Abroad.” Mark Twain Found Inspiration in Germany (Though the Language Eluded Him) 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z It’s not a reason to overlook slipshod structure—only the most glaring example of which was flashing back to episode 3 in episode 4. The Morning After: Follow-Up Story 2012-07-16T15:18:49Z Despite its slipshod entry into the world, “Third” has only seen its reputation grow in subsequent decades. Big Star's lost masterpiece finally gets its due 2013-06-27T21:39:00Z Painted with somewhat ham-handed flair, they contrast big, rambunctious, slipshod shapes in black or gray acrylic with negative areas of bare canvas. Art In Review: AMY FELDMAN: ‘Dark Selects’ 2012-07-12T21:29:21Z Judged by the usual standards, it is a wretched documentary: visually and narratively sloppy; coy about its motives; slipshod in its adherence to basic ethical norms. | 'Catfish': The World Where You Aren?t What You Post 2010-09-16T22:24:00Z “Further slipshod generalizations about Camus will simply not be tolerable from now on.” Herbert Lottman, Biographer of French Figures, Dies at 87 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z When he took its helm, the orchestra was roundly considered to be a world-class ensemble in name only, its playing grown slipshod, its players fractious and discontented, its recording contracts unrenewed. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z It is the kind of writing that does not permit loose or slipshod thinking. Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z It’s informative, in a slipshod way, but also hopelessly cheesy, packed with dad jokes, puns, silly accents and even a doggie beauty contest. ‘Space Dogs’ Review: To Boldly Go Where No Dog Has Gone Before 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Yet if some of it suffers from a rather slipshod lyricism, the auto-biographical sections are too flatly naturalistic. The North (And Almost Everything In it) by Paul Morley – review 2013-06-13T09:01:01Z And as with those books, the story feels like a fairly slipshod scaffolding thrown up around a handful of historical tidbits. When Harry Met Harry 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Perversely, the expensive CGI achieves the opposite effect of those spandex and leg warmer outfits — it trades real theatricality for slipshod illusionism, pushing you out instead of pulling you in. Mission Impawsible: How Much ‘Cats’ Can a Person Take? 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z One slip may be forgiven but a slipshod presentation breaks the spell. Review | The story behind some of the world’s most awe-inspiring magic tricks 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z What we need to counteract the slipshod syntax, off-putting abusiveness, unruly topic-roaming and frenetic, unreal "social networking" is good, old-fashioned discipline. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z A meeting place for slipshod anachronisms that chart an unsteady journey through the city's past, it boasts a rolled-steel joust with a Jacobean oak finish and a wall of distressed London bricks. Artist of the week 83: Rupert Ackroyd 2010-04-15T11:51:00Z Several of the vocalists were off pitch, the production values were slipshod, and Kevin in the second row needs to stop picking his nose. Style Invitational Week 1313: Dead Letters — our obit poem contest 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Observers thought the defense was too distracted by the wristband controversy given its slipshod tackling. The Curse of Cade? How one play may have led to 25 years of misery for UCLA football 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Because safety training was so slipshod, Faerstein said, chaos ensued among crew when the fire spread through the boat. 'We're gonna die': Final words, closing arguments in Conception boat fire trial 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z “The group that made this phenomenal claim is a group that now is demonstrably engaged in slipshod or even fraudulent data handling,” said the reviewer who spoke on the condition of anonymity. A Looming Retraction Casts a Shadow Over a Field of Physics 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z The mayor almost immediately seized the moment to boast that he had long prevented slipshod construction, now the focus of the authorities around Turkey. Why Did a Turkish City Withstand the Quake When Others Crumbled? 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Before, Mr. Onorato said, surveillance was slipshod, and the area had been left mostly to itself. Skatepark With Colosseum View Gives Rome a Modern Tourist Attraction 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Americans may be unnerved less by the actual outcomes of these cases than by their apparently slipshod and openly partisan reasoning. Column: How Congress could rein in the rogue Supreme Court 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z He scolded the system for “slipshod” customer service that everyday commuters, such as he, paid a steady rise in fares to endure. Matt Hilburn, who fought to ‘Unsuck’ Metro, dies at 54 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z If you decide to recover, choose your upholsterer carefully: As Checkbook’s ratings reveal, most area companies routinely offer superior customer service — but slipshod handiwork and other problems are common. Is that old sofa worth reupholstering? Here’s what to consider. 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Initially, orthodox clergy like Lyman Beecher complained of Finney's exuberant methods and slipshod theology, but they could not resist his success. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Hanken thinks Thorius tolerates slipshod wrist bones because the animals’ bodies are so small that the forces on their joints are minuscule. Junk DNA Deforms Salamander Bodies 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z 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. Column: Nuclear energy backers say it's vital for the fight against global warming. Don't be so sure 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Too many organizations could more aptly be termed dis-organizations, and lofty aims are no excuse for slipshod execution. Is It OK to Claim a Religious Exemption to the Covid Vaccine? 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z James Gunn, the “Guardians of the Galaxy” filmmaker, suggested a slipshod culture could be partly to blame. Baldwin shooting highlights risks of rushed film production 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Prior to the report's release, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer issued a 38-page statement criticizing the audit as "slipshod" and detailing why he believes the 2020 result was valid. Arizona Republicans to release findings of widely panned election audit 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The inquiry has been dogged from its start by slipshod and sometimes bizarre conduct. Arizona’s Criticized Election Review Nears End, but Copycats Are Just Getting Started 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Despite several delays, the intent still appears to be to hand Mr. Trump and his acolytes an official-looking report, no matter how slipshod, that gives their election lies the appearance of plausibility. Opinion | The GOP’s delusion-fueled election ‘audits’ spell trouble for 2024 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The training requirements outlined in the protocols for the state investigators “are awesome,” Williams said, and should correct slipshod investigations he has seen at the local level. California shifts police shooting probes to attorney general 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Grand jury inquiries through the 1980s and 1990s documented slipshod work by Miami-area building inspectors, though much of that scrutiny focused on inspections of single-family homes. Lax Enforcement Let South Florida Towers Skirt Inspections for Years 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z The slipshod IG review is highly significant for three reasons. How the mainstream media fell for the Lafayette Square whitewash 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z 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. Review: The political chiller 'New Order' is an expression of contempt — and deserves the same 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Several decried the committee for slipshod research, such as citing Wikipedia articles as part of its recommendations. Faced with lawsuits, San Francisco pauses renaming schools to focus on reopening classrooms 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Simpson trial was generating daily headlines detailing allegations of slipshod police work, and Garland did not want an Oklahoma City investigation to be criticized in the same way. Oklahoma City bombing provides insights into how Garland would run Justice Department 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Reuters identified dozens of workplaces where employees complained of slipshod pandemic safety around the time of outbreaks - and regulators never inspected the facilities or, in some cases, took months to do so. Exclusive: Most U.S. firms hit with COVID-19 safety fines aren't paying up 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z For one thing, it will have been aided by Trump, whose slipshod approach to governing produced a roll of regulations that were born legally impaired. Column: Biden signals his goal of eradicating every trace of the Trump era from U.S. memory 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Only his own slipshod pass allowed United to recover. Scott McTominay keeps his head to guide Manchester United past Watford 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Although immensely lucrative, his licensing methods were often viewed as excessive, slipshod and greedy. Pierre Cardin, designer who transformed fashion in 1960s, dies at 98 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Rep. Eric Swalwell, one of several California Democrats who've been critical of the administration, says Trump has made so many slipshod attempts to achieve his supposed goals that the worst case may not happen. Inside the bunker: Scenarios for Trump’s last months in office 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z The 66-page report, Reclaiming the American Dream: Proposals to Empower the Workers of Today and Tomorrow, is amazingly slipshod. This should be American workers’ future, say House Republicans 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Last summer, after years of inaction on consumer privacy by the federal government and slipshod privacy protection by big businesses collecting personal data, the California Legislature took matters into its own hands. Column: The Big Business attack on California's landmark privacy law moves to the ballot box 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z The investigation by Culp and others of Moore’s abuse was slipshod and amounted to an effort “to sweep it under the rug,” said Bill Gilbert, the Spokane attorney representing the victim. Lawsuit accuses GOP gubernatorial candidate Loren Culp of mishandling child sex-abuse investigation 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Nursing home staffers are quitting in large numbers, these workers said, because of illness fears and what they described as a slipshod emergency response by management. Special Report: Pandemic exposes systemic staffing problems at U.S. nursing homes 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Regulators have taken action against a few companies for slipshod tenant screenings; the Fair Credit Reporting Act requires background screeners to “follow reasonable procedures to assure maximum possible accuracy.” How Automated Background Checks Freeze Out Renters 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z It wouldn’t be easy to produce anything more dull and commonplace — awkwardly expressed and slipshod, so loose-jointed, so puerile. Opinion | ‘I believe I am treated worse,’ Trump says. As if. 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z That delay put workers at risk, the complaints argue, and is representative of what they characterize as Amazon’s slipshod response to the COVID-19 pandemic within its operations. Fearful of COVID-19, Amazon workers ask for state probe of working conditions 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z "The problem with developing things slipshod is we lose things that are irreplaceable," he said. Hospital plans may see 'irreplaceable' history lost 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z The slipshod nature of the performance meant Hull almost earned a replay. Michy Batshuayi takes his chance in Chelsea’s nervy win at Hull 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z The crashes have been attributed to slipshod engineering, irresponsible cost-cutting and sweetheart arrangements with government regulators — all aspects of management that fall within the board’s jurisdiction. Column: Boeing's board shouldn't escape blame in 737 Max scandal 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Yet again the home side were slipshod: this time Fred was dispossessed with ease and black-and-white shirts flooded forward. Anthony Martial at double for Manchester United in Newcastle rout 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z A scuffed Mahrez shot that dribbled to Schmeichel was indicative of one reason – slipshod finishing – why his team have not been the force they were. Gabriel Jesus caps Manchester City’s comeback win over Leicester 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z The privatization program has been plagued in recent years by widespread complaints about neglected or slipshod repairs, unsafe conditions and, especially, mold problems. Military Families Say Base Housing Is Plagued by Mold and Neglect 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z A fourth expert called by Republicans called the inquiry slipshod and rushed. U.S. lawmakers work to settle on articles of impeachment against Trump 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z He said the Democrats were bringing a “slipshod impeachment” case against the president, but he didn’t excuse Trump’s behavior. Pelosi to deliver public statement on Trump impeachment 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z “We are all mad and where has it taken us? Will a slipshod impeachment make us less mad or will it only give an invitation for the madness to follow in every future administration?” Trump impeachment inquiry: House judiciary committee holds first public hearing – live 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z A shambling, slipshod figure in the best of times, the prime minister has seemed undisciplined and occasionally uninformed during several recent appearances — lending weight to past criticism that he is often lazy and ill-prepared. Boris Johnson Was Supposed to Be an Ace Campaigner. So Why Is He Stumbling? 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Indeed, the evidence is that the administration’s effort to allow states to impose work rules on Medicaid was hasty and slipshod. Column: Medicaid work requirements cost millions, achieve nothing -- and may be illegal 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z When I was starting graduate school two decades ago, I often heard my professors discuss the latest results in cosmology as if they were intrinsically suspect—the products of slipshod or haphazard endeavors. A Well-Deserved Physics Nobel 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z I started skimming: It was a detailed letter to Deutsche Bank from a senior official at the New York arm of the Federal Reserve, who was furious with the bank for its slipshod accounting. Me and My Whistle-Blower 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Instead, it’s the editor of the piece who’s the slipshod villain, deciding to cut a vital element about the subject due to “haste.” The Kavanaugh lynch mob returns; once again, plot to defame drives Democratic playbook 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Was this slipshod investigatory work by the FBI, or was it the product of political pressure the FBI was getting from congressional Republicans and higher-ups in the Trump administration? Opinion | Don’t revisit the Kavanaugh fight. Learn from it. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z But legal experts and defense lawyers say that it is difficult to convince a jury that someone is guilty of manslaughter in cases where slipshod construction work has led to deaths. An Illegal Gas Line Killed 2 People. Should the Landlord Go to Prison? 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z “Both the procedure for making the loans and the method of reporting them look slipshod at best, and, in all fairness, suspicious.” NRA board member and former president Marion Hammer obtained low-interest loan from affiliate she leads 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z But again, he missed, and when McTominay later sprayed a pass aimed at James awry here were signs of United becoming slipshod. Crystal Palace’s Patrick van Aanholt stuns Manchester United 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Most recently, the administration’s slipshod approach dealt it a major loss in the battle over adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census. Column: Trump cabinet sabotages its own policies through laziness, incompetence or both 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z “It was really shameful,” he said of the noticeably slipshod process. Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess. 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z It shows how slipshod the architects of this tax bill were, and it demonstrates their deeply partisan motives. Opinion | Republicans are taxing churches to help corporations. Really. 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Ms. Caballé’s evident devotion to tone over text, reviewers complained, could result in diction so slipshod that it bordered on anarchy. Montserrat Caballé, Revered Spanish Prima Donna, Dies at 85 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z He pledged to correct “slipshod supervision” of the yearbook. Sexist slurs and coded insults: St. Albans School 2015 yearbook stirred outrage 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z But it's also the only thought this slipshod thriller contains in its not-so-pretty little package. Review: Fear the walking undead of studio castoff 'Patient Zero' 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Make sure money is not an available excuse for doing a slipshod or incomplete cleanup and restoration. Montana Editorial Roundup 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z If Guardiola put a flea in his charges’ ears at half-time a slipshod Walker pass that ceded possession will have particularly annoyed. Manchester City fans celebrate title but pay tribute to Alex Ferguson 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z He lamented that “slipshod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference, and half-hearted work seem the rule,” and that young men, when asked to perform a novel task, were apt to protest, “Was I hired for that?” A Message to Millennials From 1899 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z His second was as scruffy as United were slipshod as he beat Ashley Young to a header that went in off the bar despite David de Gea’s efforts. Sevilla’s Ben Yedder sends Manchester United crashing out of Europe 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Enthusiasts might leap at the chance to see some of the sport’s rising stars on a grand stage, but they are also probably turned off by the slipshod nature of the games and unpolished nuances. Without NHL players, Olympic men’s tournament gives a glimpse of the future 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z His campaign was slipshod; he was vastly outspent by his Democratic rival and faced strong Republican opposition after a hostile takeover of the GOP. One year in, is Donald Trump's presidency a fluke or a political turning point? 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z "He did everything right, never slipshod anything. A wonderful father, a wonderful son." The lives lost in Las Vegas “I’m upset at how slipshod the buildings are that are going up,” he said. John Keister’s last stand: ‘Almost Live!’ star straddles old and new Seattle 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Still, no one will confuse “Wind River” for anything slipshod. Review: In ‘Wind River’ grief blankets a Wyoming reservation 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z The report also faults the DEA for slipshod investigations of two other fatal shootings by its agents in the impoverished Central American country in the summer of 2012. DEA gave a false story about deadly 2012 attack in Honduras, U.S. report says 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z President Trump’s latest shortsighted and slipshod budget proposal twists the knife on Americans struggling with extortionate student loan debt and disincentivizes pursuing careers serving the public interest. Opinion | Trump and DeVos are shortsighted on student loan debt 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Still, since the days of independence, Colombia has been known as a nation of sophisticated laws and slipshod enforcement. In Colombia, chaotic capital gets lesson in 'coexistence' 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Prosecutors in Italy built their case partly off the Americans’ slipshod tradecraft, relying on the Americans’ cellphone records to trace their movements before and after the operation. Ex-CIA officer celebrates Italy’s decision not to jail her in Muslim cleric’s kidnapping 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z They rely too much on hunches gleaned from watching a workout or drawn through slipshod research. Saving the moribund LA Lakers could be Magic Johnson's greatest trick of all 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Innocent people were wrongfully detained, interrogations were brutal and slipshod, and one detainee died of hypothermia after being chained half-naked to a cement floor overnight. Make America torture again: President Trump looks for ways to revive the illegal “enhanced interrogation” program 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z 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. Harvard, Too? Obama’s Final Push to Catch Predatory Colleges Is Revealing 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The slipshod scoring on his way to finishing 15th was troublingly familiar, though for now chalk it up to rust. Golf's 18 Top Newsmakers of 2016 - Golf Digest 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Tracing it lays bare his slipshod policymaking, even if his motives remain opaque. My brilliant friend 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z It does a great job doing what Google designed it to do: Running Android in its purest form, untainted by slipshod third-party apps. Google Pixel Review: Assessing the New Smartphone 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Others hired companies that followed through with the work, but did so at ridiculously high prices - and sometimes in a slipshod manner. South Carolina editorial roundup 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z He received a reasonable amount of support from his offense, which benefited once again from Arizona’s consistently slipshod defense. Joc Pederson feels the power in Dodgers' 6-2 win over the Diamondbacks 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z During its investigation, the state attempted to decipher the slipshod records and employed a company that used ground penetrating radar to determine how many bodies were buried at the cemetery and where they are located. Cemetery mess, unidentified bodies stump Tennessee officials 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z But the slipshod construction is the first problem directly touching many teams and athletes. Thursday’s Sports In Brief 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The failure to notice what was going on at Sylvania Woods, the task force concluded in a report this week, arose from antiquated, inadequate and slipshod safeguards, and improvements are urgently needed. Confronting sex abuse in Prince George’s County 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z If only as much care were put into the slipshod story. ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ is a joyless, jumbled mess 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z But to address it, “you can’t just have raids in a slipshod way or seek publicity. You have to really painstakingly try to solve these problems with the community.” Should Prostitution Be a Crime? 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Young himself plays a naive mechanic who works in the shadow of a slipshod nuclear plant while dreaming of becoming a rock star. 'Mockingjay' finale, or all four 'Hunger Games' films, now available for fans and collectors 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z The move was criticized as slipshod by many jurists, who argue that a world-famous leader poses virtually no flight risk. Charges, threat of jail cast Brazil's Lula in familiar role: martyr 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Franklin, Jr. was given a safe New York seat in Congress, where in five years he compiled a deplorable absentee record and, according to his congressional colleagues, was slipshod in his homework. Jeb Bush and the Curse of Political Dynasties 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z “This was far from a slipshod defense,” Ms. Gill said. Michael Skakel’s Lawyer Says Trial in Killing of Martha Moxley Wasn’t Fair 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z She said that, starting in third grade, when children begin taking the state exams, embarrassing or belittling children for work seen as slipshod was a regular occurrence, and in some cases encouraged by network leaders. On Video, a First Grader, a Stumble in Math and a Teacher’s Anger 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z There was indeed something slipshod, if not sinister, about the initial reports of Birch’s death: Ethel Birch was first told that her son had been killed by “stray bullets.” The Unlikely Poster Boy of the Radical Right 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Within hours of the story’s airing, it came under attack, with accusations of document forgeries and slipshod reporting culminating in Mapes’s termination and Dan Rather’s resignation from the network he had personified for decades. ‘Truth’ revisits a ‘60 Minutes’ story that nearly tanked Bush’s reelection 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z By its own count, the CIA interrogation program wrongly detained over two dozen people, and the program’s recordkeeping was so slipshod that the precise number of people detained and interrogated isn’t known. Carly Fiorina backs Bush-era torture, but flubs facts 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Conservative MP and committee chairman Mr Jenkin told the charity chiefs it appeared "the temptation to raise money made you slipshod in your governance procedures or wilfully blind to what was going on". Charity fundraising tactics 'a scandal', says senior MP - BBC News 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Related: Australia’s Steve Smith makes statement with self-restraint against England | Andy Bull The England batting was simply dismantled by a heady combination of excellent bowling and slipshod shot selection. Ashes 2015: Peter Siddle gives Australia edge that reduces England to rubble 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z His book - Aarushi - is a gripping account of the crime, an allegedly slipshod investigation and a puzzling trial. Was Aarushi Talwar murder verdict a miscarriage of justice? - BBC News 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z This is the perfect case — an NFL superstar punished based on a slipshod in-house investigation — for a federal lawsuit challenging Goodell’s disciplinary process, which careens wildly like a runaway tractor trailer. SNYDER: Roger Goodell trying to avoid embarrassment in Tom Brady appeal 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z I have sought to explain how this kind of analysis was always simplistic and slipshod. Julia Gillard book exclusive: how the bullying, biased media hurts Australia 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z DJ Mustard created the blueprint for a certain type of slipshod Southern bounce, and there’s nothing producers love more than a blueprint for a hit. The hot new sound: a timeline of pop's biggest producers 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The city’s financing had become so slipshod and haphazard that it no longer even maintained an official set of books. 'Welcome to Fear City' – the inside story of New York's civil war, 40 years on 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z When Crick and others began to argue for junk DNA, they were guided by a similar vision of nature as slipshod. Is Most of Our DNA Garbage? 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Second, Newsweek appears to be attacking the Bible itself – although claiming not to – and it does so in a slipshod, methodologically flawed way at that. A Response to Newsweek on the Bible Privately run prisons would never be so slipshod in hiring practices. Agency Report Finds Criminal Histories and Gang Ties Among Rikers Officers 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Hensarling added that the programs would be "an invitation by government for industry to return to slipshod and dangerous practices that caused the mortgage meltdown in the first place and wrecked our economy." Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac detail plans for 3% down-payment mortgages 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z He approached Ray Hyman, a psychologist who had observed the tests of Geller’s ability at Stanford and thought them slipshod, and suggested they create an organization dedicated to combating pseudoscience. The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The building materials were second-rate and the workmanship was slipshod. Effective, Successful Leadership - Walk the Talk if You Want to Lead 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The invasion quickly helped install a new set of leaders in the region, who organized a slipshod referendum to call for Crimea to secede from Ukraine. This Gay Couple Left Crimea Because of Russian Homophobia 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z But even some who helped push the State Department into confronting extremists online fear that US counter-propaganda is amorphous, slipshod and unlikely to persuade internet-fluent youths to whom Isis attempts to appeal. Isis's online propaganda outpacing US counter-efforts, officials warn 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Well, given the last-minute reunion postponement, the effort so far seems a bit slipshod. The attorney general and his bucket list The report, issued by a federal court-appointed monitor, also takes the police department to task for slipshod maintenance of its in-car cameras. Report takes Orleans police to task over cameras 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Shannon was the valedictorian when she graduated from a city school, only to find out when she enrolled in a community college that her education was so slipshod that she needed remedial classes. The Battle for New York Schools: Eva Moskowitz vs. Mayor Bill de Blasio 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z There have been more than a few slipshod rounds this year -- especially on Fridays and one as recently as last week at the Scottish Open -- a fact for which he claimed to have “no explanation.” It's quite simple, really: When Rory's driver is on, he's 'unstoppable': The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z Now that the Feds are moving to recording, the rest of the states will be under pressure to fall into line: any unrecorded interrogation will increasingly seem slipshod. The F.B.I.'s Interrogations, Finally on Film 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Other officials were fined or sentenced to short prison terms for allowing illegal design changes and slipshod construction of the building. South Korea Premier Resigns Over Ferry Sinking 2014-04-28T07:01:42Z Their slipshod defense, their propensity for early deficits, a suddenly slumping offense and the state of Taylor Jordan’s rotation spot momentarily faded as Pujols’s teammates streamed from the Nationals Park visitors’ dugout to meet Pujols. Nationals vs. Angels: Albert Pujols hits home runs No. 499, 500 as Los Angeles wins, 7-2 2014-04-23T02:25:59Z Ridiculed for his slipshod handling of the initial investigation, he was pulled off the case and then resigned from the force. Pistorius' watch vanished while police combed house, court told 2014-03-14T15:55:58Z In the audit, the city sometimes offered an explanation for its slipshod documentation. Need for Speeders Puts Tiny Florida City on Brink of Erasure 2014-03-10T15:42:58Z Not surprisingly, they both spoke with urgency, asserting that repairing and reinventing their slipshod defense is the top priority. It's no surprise defense on Bears' minds 2014-02-21T02:45:00Z It is slipshod in its reasoning and pusillanimous with regard to defending fundamental rights. Why Indian author Vikram Seth is angry 2013-12-20T10:15:03Z "It's a very serious case and you can't be slipshod about it," said Richardson, a retired employee of the New York State Senate. SAC's Steinberg found guilty of insider trading 2013-12-19T00:13:27Z The results: “overpaneled providers,” long waits for appointments, annoyed patients and the delivery of dangerously slipshod care. Hard Cases: A Doctor’s Formula for Care 2013-12-09T21:03:01Z By the assassination buffs’ accounting, the commission’s research was slipshod or, worse, a deliberate fiction, a murderous and omnipotent cabal’s hoodwinking of the American public by way of incompetent investigators with establishment credentials. The Kennedy Wars 2013-11-05T11:05:25Z Taxpayers have spent more than $600 million on the deeply flawed program; it has occasionally benefited soldiers, but its slipshod construction and murky aims have also put Afghans and Americans at risk. Opinion: How to Read Afghanistan 2013-08-10T18:15:10Z The instructions for slipshod standards stemmed from the top of the bank, the lawsuit said. DealBook: Government Sues Bank of America Over Mortgage Securities 2013-08-06T20:49:34Z The legal challenges stem from what Case Western’s Adler says is the law’s slipshod wording. Obamacare May Be Headed Back to the Supreme Court 2013-08-02T01:15:31Z They speak in a slipshod way with dropped Hs, intruded glottal stops and many mistakes in grammar. How 'thank you' fell out of fashion 2013-07-17T16:58:44Z The Mets then took the lead one inning later, thanks to some slipshod fielding from the Nationals, who made two errors on one play. Mets 5, Nationals 1: Sore Elbow Doesn’t Deter Gee in Victory Over Nationals 2013-06-29T20:46:09Z And the whole thing has the slipshod sincerity of a piece of fan art. George Galloway's finest moments - now available on iTunes 2013-05-24T13:50:24Z This slipshod culture magnified the impact of simple human errors across the bank. DealBook: Report Details Missteps In Trading at JPMorgan 2013-01-17T02:35:27Z “The court accepted petitioner’s factoid uncritically,” they wrote, “all the while accusing the S.E.C. of paying inadequate attention to the empirical work before it, and of slipshod economic analysis in general.” High & Low Finance: Circuit Court Needs to Let the S.E.C. Do Its Job 2012-09-20T22:42:02Z That doesn't mean you have to be slipshod. Labour's Miliband calls for big UK bank sell-off 2012-07-09T15:07:10Z But Dan Herbert, representing the police officers, assailed a police Internal Affairs investigation into the matter, calling it "slipshod." Handwriting expert backs cops on tickets 2012-05-02T03:40:00Z His clothes are of a very common description, rather slovenly and untidy, and his shoes are slipshod. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z And I think the first observation that will occur to every reader is surprise that a master of style could write such slipshod, almost illiterate, English. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z And can you recall the indolent slipshod answer you made me about it? Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z "I vow and declare," cried she, warmly, "I believe it is your slipshod philosophy that makes me as severe as a holy inquisitor!" Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z So severe a self-critic is he that he will take nothing for granted nor allow his work to become slipshod because of its very familiarity. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z Moreover, she was genuine, nothing she undertook was slighted or done in a slipshod manner. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z But if the penny is right in that respect, it exhibits another extraordinary example of our slipshod heraldry, by a variation of a different and more startling kind. Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. 2012-03-23T02:00:32.397Z Then the untidy, slipshod way the riders are often turned out is a disgrace to a country which is considered to have the best horses and riders in the world. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z He knew how to clean up an engine, although, Ralph divined, in the most slipshod and easiest way that would pass inspection. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z I know of no other way of sufficiently explaining the awkward, slipshod, unsatisfactory mode of talking so common even among educated people. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z I heard the woman chuckle and go slipshod down the passage, and though I knocked again in a rage, the door remained closed. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z We ran to the door, in time to see Mrs. Dobb, her hair in a tangle down her back, in a dirty wrapper and slipshod slippers, stumbling down stairs. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z Though her spars were aloft, she had a slipshod look that would have vexed a sailor beyond measure. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The crops are gathered in the same slipshod way. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z They looked nothing better than "dirty, slouching ragamuffins," slipshod, in tattered and cast-off clothes of all sorts, on the verge of actual mendicancy, bits of rusty uniform appearing here and there amongst their cotton rags. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z "They are the prisoners of the House of Commons," said Cynthia, and the phrase struck pleasantly upon Mr. Devenish's ears so used to the slipshod metaphors of the average speaker. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z He instantly called out, "You dog, you son274 of a gun, you speckled shirt dog!" for Roberts had just turned out, wore a speckled Holland shirt, and was slipshod, without stockings. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.207Z There were moments Sunday, like Peprah’s slipshod attempt to tackle Nicks on a first-quarter scoring catch, when Green Bay’s shortcomings jumped out. A Suspect Packers Defense Has Another Down Day 2012-01-16T01:51:04Z Foote recalled this slipshod phrase in his comical portrait of the Duke. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z In place of this loose and slipshod method Black insisted that the student must endeavour to form a clear mental image of every phenomenon which he studied. Heroes of Science Chemists 2011-12-09T03:00:21.047Z One careful game is worth any number of slipshod, careless efforts which are disconcerting to your partner, and the delight of your adversaries. Bridge Axioms and Laws 2011-11-26T03:00:16.523Z So keep her at home—with occasional sallies abroad; and if she must ever winter abroad, let it be in delightful slipshod old Rome! The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Small sympathy had he for domestic life or sentiment even in their best aspects, and this virtuous, slipshod, cockney Bohemianism had no attraction for him whatever. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z One does not contemn Calne on account of its misfortunes, but it must always have been a slipshod place. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z Surely they are not always or often thus, or else married life is indeed but a slipshod paradise. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z The outer door closed with a sullen inhospitable jar, and a slipshod female servant entered with a card between her finger and thumb. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z For mumbled meter, leaden pun, For slipshod rhyme, and lazy word, Have pity on this graceless one— Thy mercy on Thy servant, Lord! Chimneysmoke 2011-10-27T02:00:25.953Z That budget, Haggerty’s lawyers said, was a slipshod effort that their client slapped together in the final days of the campaign, knowing that the decision to fund the project had already been made. Political operative convicted of stealing from NYC billionaire mayor in poll-watching scam 2011-10-21T16:12:36Z Del Monte Fresh Produce fired back, filing its lawsuit and accusing federal and state inspectors of conducting a slipshod investigation. Del Monte Fresh Produce Resists in a Food Safety Case 2011-09-21T22:59:28Z A city rough of the lowest type—you could tell that from the texture of the ragged, second-hand garments he wore; from his slipshod feet, his horrid cap of greasy fur, and pale, unwholesome face. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Though her more one-dimensional power game was overwhelming enough for her to win matches against top players in the late 1990s, it appears scattered and slipshod in comparison to the comprehensive excellence she displays now. Straight Sets: More Refined Game From Serena Williams 2011-08-31T05:23:59Z How could I be otherwise, or anyone else with a grain of sense or feeling, I cannot do things slipshod or by halves. The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church 2011-08-18T02:00:21.113Z The calligraphy, though very readable, has a somewhat slipshod look. Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z Common-sense Biology does not mean anything like that slipshod dealing with miscellaneous phenomena of nature which sometimes goes by the name of Nature Study. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z "By George, sir, I never saw anything so slovenly and slipshod in my life; disgraceful, sir, positively disgraceful!" A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z There I saw a figure of a short, set girl in a shabby cotton gown, not over clean, and slipshod, stooping before the stove, and striking the fender with the iron poker. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z A moment more, and the slipshod maid of all work appears, ushering in— “A gentleman, sir.” Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z Instead of the suppleness and endless variety of Chaucer’s verse, we have a treatment of metre which at its best is apt to be dull and stiff, and at its worst is intolerably slipshod. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z The slipshod practices in foreclosures led to further questions about whether all the necessary documents were delivered to the trusts and properly administered by them. Two States Ask if Paperwork in Mortgage Bundling Was Complete 2011-06-13T03:08:25Z He himself came before long to condemn the style of ‘the slipshod Endymion.’ Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z He was not the slipshod, careless, happy-go-lucky boy he was once, but a careful boy, studying the interests of the business certainly more than we clerks had done when I was at Barlow's. Dawson Black: Retail Merchant 2011-06-04T02:00:16.620Z Besides its mnemonic value, verse is the most fitting raiment of poetry because it is most dignified and compact, not colloquial and slipshod. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z As he spoke, a small slipshod servant-girl unbarred and partly opened the door. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z Many a good case that I have taken in hand has collapsed for the simple reason that the parties instructing me had been a little slipshod in the matter of their dates. A Crime of the Under-seas 2011-05-17T02:00:16.540Z You may say what you will of Devonshire: the truth is, it is a splashy, rainy, misty, snowy, foggy, haily, floody, muddy, slipshod county. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z What with her ragged frock and tippet, broken straw bonnet, and slipshod shoes, the child looked wretched enough. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z The mood is leaden and perfunctory, as if most of the folks involved were laborers in a Chinese factory, knowing that if they make a product, no matter how slipshod, people will buy it. Johnny Depp's Pirates Sinks on the Riviera 2011-05-14T23:02:38Z His lawyers argued that the city had shown a reckless disregard for Mr. Newton’s rights because the system for storing DNA evidence was slipshod. Ruling Blocks $18.5 Million to Man Freed in Rape Case 2011-05-13T03:50:04Z He deals with all Peacock's known writings, giving analysis of each; and he writes with a freshness, a searching clearness and thoroughness delightful in these days of so much slovenly, slipshod criticism. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Glad of a chance to change the subject, Charles made no objection, and Rowland stalked, in his slipshod way, into the sitting-room. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z It should act as a wholesome corrective of the usual slipshod treatment accorded to the artist. War Posters Issued by Belligerent and Neutral Nations 1914-1919 2011-04-04T02:00:11.403Z Probably none of the dismissed were worth much--the housekeeping at the Castle had been slipshod and easy-going,--all things had been allowed to take their own course. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z Allied to this purpose was a collateral attack upon the slipshod Apology of the playwright Colley Cibber, with whom, for obscure reasons, Fielding had long been at war. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z “Heigh-ho, what a slipshod world this would be if there were nobody but women in it!” Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z That, no doubt, is a slipshod method, but it is peculiar to us here in the South. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z Doubtless the prologue is a slipshod and sometimes ludicrous expedient. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z "Beyond the fact that the writer is thoroughly illogical, slipshod and evidently malicious, there is no fault to be found with his statements," observed Leonard, as he returned the cutting to the lady. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z Under your slipshod administration we spent nearly two hundred thousand dollars during the past year on so-called inventions. Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z Though the Contador ruling likely will be appealed, the cases illustrate the two most significant problems plaguing current anti-doping systems and their drug tests: positives caused by unintentional ingestion and, less frequently, slipshod lab work. Diana Taurasi, Alberto Contador cases highlight questions facing anti-doping movement 2011-02-27T05:58:03Z Some might call his metre at times slipshod and undignified, from the fact that, except in elevated passages, the characters speak in rhythmical sentences which approximate to prose. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z This exercise should never be allowed to pass into a careless and slipshod performance; the children should be alive and responding alertly to the call made upon them. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z If she had to achieve publication by merit, her style might be less slipshod.' The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z His treatment of patients was worse than slipshod. Abortion Doc's Murder Case: More About Poverty than Abortion 2011-01-20T15:20:00Z The Motion Picture Association of America, which represents the major film studios, shot back with a critique of what it called a “slipshod” report by the group, which it said was biased against government incentives. States Weigh Cuts in Hollywood Subsidies 2011-01-19T20:50:01Z Among policy-makers, they warned, "slipshod thinking about universities is leading to demands that they cannot satisfy, while obscuring their most important contributions to society and undermining their potential". University cuts show science is far from saved 2011-01-19T16:50:37.747Z Making the most of some good fortune, as well as some slipshod cricket from the Australians, Strauss and Steven Davies had put on 90 for the first wicket in just 12 overs. Watson blitz gives Australia victory 2011-01-16T22:00:03Z Making the most of some good fortune, as well as some slipshod cricket from the Australians, Andrew Strauss and Steven Davies put on 90 for the first wicket in just 12 overs. Watson century drives Australia to victory in Melbourne 2011-01-16T11:36:30Z The chief way in which the absence of this gift of fear manifests itself is in the careless and slipshod way we perform our duties. The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul 2011-01-06T03:00:50.440Z Untidy rooms and careless, slipshod ways worry him dreadfully. Betty's Battles an Everyday Story 2011-01-02T03:00:19.670Z Many small industries are carried on in this quarter: there are many lodging-houses: the streets are rather grimy, the houses are rather shabby, the people are rather slipshod. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z My own preoccupation with the awful harm caused by slipshod journalism concerned a less momentous but nevertheless troubling event. People, we're in deep trouble 2010-12-23T02:01:00Z His jumping was slipshod at times, but the merit of his 12-length victory could not be faulted. Twist Magic put down after Newbury fall 2010-12-15T18:22:01Z Still, Mr. Bard, the manager, continued to usher in artists, and whoever else caught his fancy, as long-term residents, even though the rest of the board found his management style somewhat slipshod. As Hotel of Stars and Grit Faces Uncertain Future, the City Shrugs 2010-12-08T03:10:00Z In addition, the analysts say, slipshod or fraudulent processing of foreclosures could delay banks from getting delinquent loans off their books and expose them to litigation. Wells Fargo says it's clear of foreclosure problems 2010-10-20T15:11:00Z But this is about more than slipshod affidavits. Foreclosuregate: Robostop 2010-10-14T11:20:00Z "The latest allegations of corner-cutting and slipshod paperwork are troubling, but perhaps not surprising." States hit banks with mortgage probe 2010-10-14T01:46:00Z “The latest allegations of corner cutting and slipshod paperwork are troubling, but perhaps not surprising.” 49 States Start Inquiry Into Foreclosures 2010-10-13T16:21:00Z They exemplify the rise of neurosurgery and the evolution of 20th-century American medicine — from a slipshod trial-and-error trade to a prominent, highly organized profession. Inside Neurosurgery?s Rise 2010-08-23T20:06:00Z It said the lawyers had ignored legal precedents and provided slipshod legal advice to the White House in possible violation of international and federal laws on torture. A New Report and a New Verdict in Terror Fight 2010-02-20T02:19:00Z Small firms with slipshod standards are being replaced by bigger, better ones. 2010-01-21T10:37:00Z It indicated that a stage had been reached when more was known, when practical business was being taken in hand, and when, therefore, the slipshod patents, which had hitherto sufficed, would no longer avail. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical For success in any sort of cookery, much hard work is necessary; slipshod methods and intuition can not produce food that is up to standard. Candy-Making Revolutionized Confectionery from Vegetables The stranger entered in a slipshod hesitant manner. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Good cultivation in the long run pays a greater profit than slipshod culture. Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 The inexorable conscientiousness of Macaulay, his determination to put out nothing from his hand which his hand was still capable of improving, was a perfect godsend to the best hopes of our slipshod generation. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 He wilfully relapsed to his former slipshod speech. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus Many private benevolent associations in the city could be mentioned which have no solid foundation of public support and are under no public supervision, and, in consequence, are weak and slipshod in all their enterprises. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them A swinging lantern under the body of the vehicle revealed a couple of dogs, and in the rear slouched three men and a slipshod, untidy woman, who twisted up her straggling hair as she went. A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days If garbage collectors render slipshod service to citizens who fail to tip them—and they do this regularly—a complaint should bring immediate relief. The Itching Palm A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America If things are allowed to run along in the slipshod way that characterized E.H.-S.'s endeavors last year, however, the team will be a poorer one than has represented the school for some time. Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 He is seldom slipshod, and he is never really negligent. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Your attentions to Pilgrim," she said, "are only a cloak for your lazy, slipshod ways. Edelweiss A Story But for the unmistakable jail-bird look about the majority of the guests, the unshorn faces, the slipshod feet, the barred windows, and the stone floor, I might have fancied myself in a large tap-room. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 No slipshod ways were allowed in his house. The Child's Book of American Biography The result was to show slipshod book-keeping, if nothing worse, in certain cases. The Children of the Poor This was Miss Wald’s story:— He came to me with the card of one of our nurses, a lanky, slipshod sort of fellow of nineteen or thereabouts. Neighbors Life Stories of the Other Half The mere grammatical coherence of a fictionally slipshod piece of work is a shield between its writer's inquiring eye and its essential defects. The Technique of Fiction Writing She frowned and examined, condemning already Bessie's incapable hand, and slipshod work. Leonore Stubbs Indeed Scott, with all his indifference to a strictly academic correctness, never permitted himself the bad rhymes, the bad grammar, the slipshod phrase in which Byron unblushingly indulges. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) The women are more than well-favoured, and the men fine tall fellows; but they look slipshod and dissipated. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers The literary woman is not slipshod in her apparel, and she may, if she chooses, be a society and club woman as well. Threads of Grey and Gold They sometimes present a desultory and slipshod appearance, owing to this very circumstance. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature The Briton in his own insular ports is a very slipshod person with regard to the papers of small craft—especially pleasure craft. The Recipe for Diamonds The lack of delicate taste which characterised his manners also marred his verse, which is not unfrequently slipshod, or gushing, or trivially fluent, and perhaps never relatively so good as the best of his prose. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Our little air is swamped and dwarfed among hardly relevant orchestration; our little passionate story drowns in a deep sea of descriptive eloquence or slipshod talk. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) This was very articulately delivered, the previous, or slipshod, pronunciation having been more nearly Granny Mallowbone. When Ghost Meets Ghost But, though careful verse is much more difficult to write than careful prose, slipshod verse is not worth the ink that shapes it. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers Beechwood was a much less genial home than the slipshod Mexican haçienda of the Mereldas and nobody paid any attention to the shy girl. Clark's Field I merely said that the reasoning used by the ancients to arrive at the Creator was the most slipshod and illogical possible. The Unthinking Destroyer After the slipshod training and the incomplete accomplishments of a girls’ school, there was something at first annoying, at last exciting and bracing, in this high standard of accomplishment and perseverance. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 It was growing dark again before any footstep came further than the landing below, and then it was a soft, stealthy, slipshod step, not like the strong and measured tread of a man. Little Meg's Children Worse, if possible, than ceremony was the other extreme of slipshod familiarity. Shirley His dialogue is, as a rule, extraordinarily slipshod and unequal: here there is no fault to find with it. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 It is in places at least the most slovenly and slipshod that was ever adopted by any true poet. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) And, believe me, the Bureau of Investigation and especially Section G, may look on the slipshod side, but they aren't. Ultima Thule A degree which simply means slipshod, unintelligent and uninterested study of a considerable number of subjects embraced in the curriculum, is verily a "scrap of paper" not worth having. How to Study He stood careless, slipshod, at the side of a desk cluttered with a mass of maps, papers, letters in packets or spread open. The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman When at last they did he heard them coming for a long time before the door was opened, heard slipshod steps on shiny linoleum, and a husky sort of breathless cough. The Phantom Lover Hardly anyone who has written so much has kept so uniformly to a high level, and so seldom descended to empty verbosity or to downright slipshod. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) If he forces himself to regard it, he sees that it is apt to be slipshod, although so trim and systematic. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 A slipshod servant appeared and reluctantly seated me in the hall. Our Next-Door Neighbors She had received rather less than was customary of the slipshod superficial education permitted to girls of the middle classes in her day. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle In Paris, the slipshod condition of the army had been publicly denounced. The Paliser case His writings are hopelessly commonplace in substance and slipshod in style. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The Scotch trader came also, and the slipshod Norse way of barter and bargaining had no chance with the Scotch steady prices and ready money. An Orkney Maid The pins in her shoes at first acted as spurs, pricking her for many steps, and then crooking and giving way; so that she had the comfort of running slipshod the rest of the way. The Fairchild Family Again, it would be easy to place much of the blame for the slipshod writings of the undergraduate upon the standards set by his elders outside the colleges. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College “Mr. Seaman’s book is never slipshod; it has the neatness, the precision, the sparkle of its Latin namesake.” The Battle of the Bays His written style, however faulty in other respects, is neither slipshod nor ambiguous, and passes into his conversational style by imperceptible degrees. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) There have been books 373 produced among us during the last twenty years, which have failed in making their way into England, mainly in consequence of the slipshod style in which they were written. Leading Articles on Various Subjects Instead of seeking how to construct a perfect dwelling place, these slipshod builders spent most of their hours in courtship. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain But thanks to the methods of slipshod, ambitious America, the schools have passed them on still shaky in the first steps of accurate writing—spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and the use of words. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College Their value to you is that they help to make your work definite and sound: and that, if it is slipshod, you shall at any rate know that it is slipshod. Three Addresses to Girls at School As soon as the slipshod girl had gone out of the room, he broke the seal and read the brief answer which Emily had returned to his declaration. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 Presently the younger of the slipshod footboys let fall a dish—fortunately the whole service was of pewter, so no harm was done—and was cursed for awkwardness. The Wild Geese There should be no slipshod way of writing a letter by which you are to be judged.-436- Figures and abbreviations are often used. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society There were even one or two mistakes in spelling, the grammar was slipshod, the different utterances what few schoolgirls would have attempted to make: so banal, so threadbare, so used-up were they. The Time of Roses The style of English books and magazines is growing far less careful than ours,—less finished, less harmonious, more slipshod, more slangy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 The tousled, tumbling hair, the slipshod feet, the soiled blouse gaping at the back, were, he reflected bitterly, in perfect harmony with Granville, and of a piece with everything. The Combined Maze She looked at the half-sovereign again, and then set off at a shuffling slipshod trot after them. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker In fact, this particular paradox is seen to be sustained by a combination of slipshod reasoning and moral prejudice. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production And though you wring your Hands and wonder Why Such slipshod Work the Magazines will buy, Don't grumble at the Editor, for he Must serve the Public, e'en as You and I. The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne There is no other remedy for careless, slipshod sentence-making so effective as the construction of many periodic sentences. English: Composition and Literature Thackeray was a Titan—well, look at his slipshod style in places, his careless grammar, his constant tautology. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius He is kind of slipshod in his mode of tackling, wanting finish, but nevertheless a dangerous man to meet in a charge. Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches It is a system typical of the East and its slipshod, rough-and-ready dealings: its great element of simplicity harks back to a life in tents, where red tape was unknown. In the Tail of the Peacock With notes, there is always the temptation to look at the note first and the text afterwards: a process sure to result in slipshod and inaccurate knowledge. Dante: His Times and His Work It would not only result in a slipshod lot of documents but the variation might mislead those who read it. Paul and the Printing Press A slipshod sibyl," "In lofty madness meditating song, leads him. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 It's a job that cannot be done in slipshod, haphazard manner. Medal of Honor This easy-going, slipshod, garrulous gentleman, fond of his glass of wine, contrasted strangely with the typical lawyer of the States. The Ghost Girl The class bent forward, attentively listening while a roughly clad, uncouth boy, slipshod in attitude, stumbled through the broken periods of his ungrammatical sentences. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) It need not be quite so slovenly and slipshod. The Cornwall Coast Mr. Archibald’s first impressions of the man did not formulate themselves in these terms; he simply thought that the guide was a slipshod sort of a fellow. The Associate Hermits Do not make letters in a careless slipshod manner. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition “I only pray to heaven,” I said seriously, “that no slipshod fool of a doctor lets you through.” The Mystery of the Green Ray If the way in which men express their thoughts is slipshod and mean, it will be very difficult for their thoughts themselves to escape being the same. Pearls of Thought The tailor came slipshod with his goose to the rescue, and flung it atPage 222 the sheep-dog, but missed him, and did not venture to pick it up till the castigation was over. Anecdotes of Dogs I knocked, and asked a slipshod girl who opened the door to me for “Miss Simms.” A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales He can't bear anything slipshod in the way of a statement. A Sheaf of Corn As horses which are not well in hand in the hunting field will, sooner or later, bring their riders either to grief or to disgrace, this slipshod method of handling should be avoided. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. There had been a slipshod ease, an old-fashioned liberality in the housekeeping during the Squire's reign, which had in some measure approximated to the popular idea of an Irish household. Vixen, Volume II. "Simply because the slipshod writers of the present day have spoiled our taste for fine English," interjected Miss McCroke severely. Vixen, Volume I. It is an unfinished, slipshod city, a strange mixture of squalor and grandeur, with tortuous, ill-paved streets, where the wayfarer looks instinctively for the "No-thoroughfare" board. From Paris to New York by Land In the Allen home every detail of housekeeping was complete and very carefully looked after, while at the Barlows’ everything went along in a slipshod, hit-or-miss fashion. Patty's Summer Days The door was opened by a rather slipshod girl, the landlady’s daughter. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Kornicker ascended the ricketty stairs and paused at the door of a room, which a slipshod woman had pointed out as that of the ‘murderer’s daughter.’ The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 It was going to be a "hit-or-miss" proposition, a careless, slipshod affair—this tea room—unless she did something to prevent it—and it was too hot. Stubble He was a man in whose presence everything mean or slipshod withered. The Beggar's Opera to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song Again, Jonson was a conscientious artist, aiming at perfection; Dekker, while capable of much higher poetry, was often careless and slipshod. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 The slipshod Russian way of handling things gets on his nerves. Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915 Though on them the traditional rotation of crops was stupid and the husbandry slipshod, yet the semi-communal tillage of the three open strips enabled Hodge to jog along in the easy ways dear to him. William Pitt and the Great War She had known she was lazy, known she was a bit slipshod and indifferent. Stubble Thought, then, is mastered by attention to the details we have discussed, and until we habitually notice these things our reading is apt to be slipshod and profitless. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide No person knowing the facts about Tuskegee can ever again honestly say that Negroes are always and necessarily slipshod and unsystematic in their business methods. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization I studied the situation before my second attempt, and then was surprised at the absurd mistakes made by the automaton, who, in his next moves, was playing in slipshod fashion, as if preoccupied. The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle The average yield of oats with late and slipshod sowing had been around fifteen bushels to the acre. Land of the Burnt Thigh Such a slovenly set you never saw,—the women with frizzled hair and slipshod shoes. The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster From the advantage of retrospection, you can say what you want about slipshod detective work. Attrition Connecticut folk seemed to be particularly given to this slipshod fashion of promiscuous and unlicensed book-borrowing, if we can trust the apparent proof given by Connecticut newspapers in their many advertisements of lost books. Customs and Fashions in Old New England To my way of thinking it is a lazy slipshod way of carrying on the practice of medicine. Disturbing Sun Accustomed as he has been for centuries to a slipshod, easygoing existence, in which, if there was much injustice, there was also much favouritism, he instinctively hates things like sanitary measures and police regulations. The New World of Islam There isn't a shoddy bit of material or a slipshod piece of work from the green tile in its roof to the stone boulders on which it rests. The Root of Evil No article of his ever showed a trace either of slipshod writing or of make-believe and perfunctory thinking. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch The ways were foul and narrow; the shop and houses wretched; the people half naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly. A Christmas Carol Many a time a slipshod workman was ready to throw him over the cliff into the sea and perhaps might have done so had he not been conscious of the justice of the criticism. Walter and the Wireless Here and there, horses and mules bearing saddles or dangling harness stood slipshod in the shade, switching their tails at innumerable flies. A Circuit Rider's Wife That the careless, mentally slipshod, restless, and morally unsound should look upon her as one of them caused Mary more pain than the criticisms of the unco guid. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers It seemed slipshod and hurried, and, worse, it was entirely too mysterious and melodramatic. Unwise Child For mumbled metre, leaden pun, For slipshod rhyme, and lazy word, Have pity on this graceless one— Thy mercy on Thy servant, Lord! Songs for a Little House The quick-witted woman got out of her suit and into her slipshod shoes and went straight to Mrs. Middleton. Elsie Marley, Honey Such slipshod phrasing as "young muscular youth" must grieve the judicious, while the effect of the sentimental interview on p. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31 He must either brace up and make his style less irritatingly slipshod, or he must give us a few more murders. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 This astonishingly slipshod bit of composition is from the pen of the Rev. Dr. Timothy Dwight. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. President Morris: You occasionally see a variety of apple grafted on another in which the graft part gives the tree a sort of slipshod appearance. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911 Somehow her heart went out to that careless, slipshod, kindly, Irish Kate. Elsie Marley, Honey Sick of slipshod morality, men were sending for their wives and children. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance It is "that blessed word Mesopotamia" of the slipshod diagnostician. Preventable Diseases This word, which means simply each or all taken separately, is of late years frequently made, by slipshod speakers, to do duty for perfect, entire, great, or all possible. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Captain Laurence made us laugh so much at a tale he was telling, that I fear the introductions were a little slipshod. Patsy In truth the making of peace was to be characterized by a looseness of organization, a failure to coördinate, and a waste of time and energy resulting from slipshod methods. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. Now, Bert," said Ans one day, "I don't wan' to hear you talk in that slipshod way any longer before Flaxen. A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen The phrase is no slipshod inversion of the fact. The Brentons Just then a small slipshod girl made an anxious dash from refuge-island, lost courage, and turned to run back, changed her mind, got bewildered, stopped suddenly and yelled. Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure She was painfully conscious, however, that the result was poor, the style slipshod, and the general composition lacking both in unity and finish. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story It was just as well, perhaps, but I would never approve of a piece of work done for me in this slipshod fashion. That Affair Next Door Well, Bill was happy—but one day he was devilish unhappy, because Sall had lost one of her shoes, which wasn’t to be wondered at, considering as how she was always slipshod. Jacob Faithful But, if Lola Montez was not very reliable, the editor of the Dublin Daily Express was similarly slipshod in his comments. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert We find no lying, no inaccuracy, no slipshod business in nature. Pushing to the Front He saw himself punished for that intellectual sloth which leads adults to fob children off with any kind of a slipshod, dishonestly simplified explanation of phenomena whose adequate explanation presents difficulty. Clayhanger The waiting—the hope—the disappointment—the fear—the misery—the poverty—the blight on his hopes and end to his career—the suicide, perhaps, or the shabby, slipshod drunkard. The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick A Lecture And this slipshod account of the matter is universally acquiesced in by learned and unlearned readers alike at the present day. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Another occasional visitor was George Augustus Sala, a mid-Victorian journalist who was responsible for printing more slipshod inaccuracies than any two members of his craft put together. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert How quickly a youth of high ideals, who has been well trained in thoroughness, often deteriorates when he leaves home and goes to work for an employer with inferior ideals and slipshod methods! Pushing to the Front How do you think I can afford to buy you fineries, if you throw them about in that slipshod fashion?” More About Peggy There was a flicker of a candle through the keyhole, and a slipshod footstep in the hall, which gave us great satisfaction. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life He stood four feet one in his slipshod boots. The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch It is now no longer of any practical service at all in the language, being merely an ungraceful and slipshod synonym for absurd. English Past and Present If we have not been thrifty, if we have not saved anything, the world will look upon us as good for nothing, as partial failures, as either lazy, slipshod, or extravagant. Pushing to the Front When we had rung, instead of sounding a blast, not a dwarf, but a slipshod dirty girl, not much bigger, opened the door cautiously. Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 After a few slipshod passes he struck the door-frame squarely with his scoop, spilling the coal to the floor. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story This housekeeping job can be as scientific and as engrossing as any office job, or it may be a slipshod, haphazard affair with everything at sixes and sevens. The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book The Master explains that a slipshod connection with God was at the bottom of their failure. Quiet Talks on Power On the streets, on the cars, and in public places, loud, coarse voices are heard in light, flippant, slipshod speech, in coarse slang expressions. Pushing to the Front He was seated in an easy chair, and fanned by a pretty slipshod girl. General Gordon Saint and Soldier The voluntary use of the visual function gives the best results; but the habitual, involuntary, slipshod use of it gives bad results, and tends to the formation of injurious habits. The Story of the Mind Too many youths enter upon their business in a languid, half-hearted way, and do their work in a slipshod manner. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune No. I was so busy on more important work that my experiments with that stuff must all of them have been slipshod. The Seventh Noon Your mind will slip down; it will refuse to exert itself; it will become as slovenly, slipshod, and inactive as your body. Pushing to the Front The rapidity with which the literature was turned out accounts for the wretched and slipshod appearance it presents. A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Constance was as beautiful a specimen of the slipshod housekeeper as ever piled away breakfast dishes unwashed, or swept dirt under a settee. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Not the stagnation of the Bartlett household, certainly not the slipshod poverty of the Martels. Quin But while such slipshod writing is singularly uninteresting, it may also be censured as inaccurate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 It does not matter whether her face or hands are clean or not, or what sort of slipshod shoes she wears, for "anything," she argues, "is good enough to go with this old wrapper." Pushing to the Front These plays are slipshod in construction, but emotionally effective. Essays on Scandinavian Literature "I dislike free and easy and slipshod ways of doing business." The Simpkins Plot He wandered slipshod through the street, His clothes had many a rent; His shoes seemed dropping from his feet, His eyes were downward bent. Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect The ways were foul and narrow; the shops and houses wretched; the people half naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly. A Christmas Carol This slipshod, dishonest manufacturing is so general that concerns which turn out products based upon honesty and truth often win for themselves a world-wide reputation and command the highest prices. Pushing to the Front But, like most people with a fine voice, he is tempted to sing too much; and it thus happens that verses of slipshod and hasty workmanship are to be found in his volumes. Essays on Scandinavian Literature There is no flagging of the invention in any of them, no slipshod or careless composition. Irish Plays and Playwrights To hold the dowdy, indifferent, slipshod and underdone in their proper places, so they could not disturb or destroy the peace, policy and prosperity of the efficient, was the task of Benedict. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Harris laughed at the other's evident disapproval of such a slipshod method of property transfer. The Settling of the Sage We cannot have an honest character, a complete, untarnished career, when we are constantly slipping rotten hours, defective material and slipshod service into our work. Pushing to the Front He must stop doing things in a slipshod and half-way manner and become more thorough. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro But to conclude from this that the anti-moral doctrine of the Pagan Nietzsche is the chief source of the outrages committed is one of those slipshod inferences which make one despair of Christian literature. The War and the Churches And a person may be absolutely moral in all his acts of life, except in writing and talking, and here he may be slipshod and uncertain. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers I had good reason to know that their system of espionage was efficient; and the slipshod way is ever the wrong way. The Golden Scorpion Avoid slipshod financiering as you would the plague. Pushing to the Front He fully recognized all its responsibilities, and the need of meeting them and respecting them by other than casual, haphazard, and slipshod methods. Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists Seated on a bench at the door was a young man, with coarse uncombed locks, breeches knee-unbuttoned, stockings ungartered, shoes slipshod and unbuckled, and a face unwashed, gazing stupidly from hollow eyes. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 To scamp means to cut short, to be superficial, slipshod, careless, indifferent—to say, "Let 'er go, who cares—this is good enough!" Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers In two or three cases at Padua the work is clumsy and slipshod, showing how he allowed his assistants to take liberties which he would never have countenanced in work finished by his own hands. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres "Carelessness," "indifference," "slouchiness," "slipshod financiering," could truthfully be written over the graves of thousands who have failed in life. Pushing to the Front There was an air of dejected femininity and slipshod drudgery about every fold of one of them when it was hung up finished. The Portion of Labor Was this land of mercenary, slipshod rush really what had carried Earthmen to the stars? Warlord of Kor Although the old servants were faithful they had grown a little slipshod in their ways, seeing that it mattered little to their employers. The Story of Bawn So long as it was not slipshod, Stevenson could forgive. Adventures in Criticism On the contrary, doing things in a loose-jointed, slipshod, careless manner deteriorates the whole mentality, demoralizes the mental processes, and pulls down the whole life. Pushing to the Front Instead of Adonizing, I will set my long locks on end, and don my slipshod slippers. Autumn Leaves Original Pieces in Prose and Verse With the rapid expansion of the Edge through the centuries, the frontier policy of the Confederation had had to adapt itself to comparatively slipshod methods of setting up governments in the newly-opened areas. Warlord of Kor A broader method to the lawyer seems shockingly loose and slipshod. The Man in Court It would infallibly have been a slipshod comprehension. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century Many excuse poor, slipshod work on the plea of lack of time. Pushing to the Front Take up many a piece of journalese or other slipshod writing, and note how often the conventional phrase or word slips from under the pen, meaning nothing in particular. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar There is rarely a slipshod sentence to be found in any part of the paper, which is the more remarkable as slipshod writing is a noticeable characteristic of almost every other colonial paper. Town Life in Australia Down one deserted street another drunkard staggered, cursing with awful curses a slipshod woman who kept pace with him on the pavement and answered him with nerveless jeers. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel In Ireland a slipshod or unprepared sermon may meet with indulgent charity. The Young Priest's Keepsake The trouble with many Americans is that they seem to think they can put any sort of poor, slipshod, half-done work into their careers and get first-class products. Pushing to the Front This and the following matter from the Recopilación show clearly the slipshod manner in which that work was compiled. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Beyond argument, it would seem, there was slipshod work within the airline in the making of the change and the failure to expressly notify flight crews. Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster C.A. 95/81 Du Puys and Nicot saw that there was no slipshod work; for while the drilling was at present only for show and to maintain awe, the discipline would prove effective in time of need. The Grey Cloak His was no barbarous manner or slipshod tongue of the market-place and the wheat-fields, but the polish and the clean-cut flawless language of the synagogues and the colleges. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem It is no time for extravagance, for slipshod service, or for defiance of established law. A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After He was weather-beaten and slipshod, and altogether made a most disreputable appearance. The Rebel of the School He is embodying angels, and spreading angelic light; himself, slipshod and loosely girdled, centring the radiance he creates. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 I went over to her, not knowing whether her appearance meant a slipshod nature or extreme poverty. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls But he never, as they sometimes do, falls into loose and slipshod writing. The Life of Froude Clement played it at sight without rehearsal, and, as a consequence of its being brought forward in such a slipshod manner, it was very seldom heard until its revival by Joachim. Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday At the time when I had last visited Sir George at Haddon, his daughter Dorothy—Sir George called her Doll—was a slipshod girl of twelve. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall And Perkins had felt in a slipshod sort of way—for at this period he was incapable of ordered thought—he might as well be at Heighton as anywhere.... A Christmas Garland Mrs. Foster herself, dirty, slipshod, a frowzy mass, hugs her fireside. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls For she had come often enough to Dinard's to discern the slipshod and unsystematic methods beneath the ornate and extravagant surface. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage A slipshod, blue-eyed Cherry brought it, and spoke her thanks in broad Scotch for the shilling which the gay Colonel flung tinkling into the measure. Audrey They moved along in rather a slipshod way and sounded like soft slippers or feet in stockings. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories I added that it was pretty slipshod business for a going concern, supposing—sarcastically now—that the Arrowhead was a going concern. Somewhere in Red Gap Her loose lips and half-toothless mouth were the slipshod note of an entire existence. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls It is their custom, with a few slipshod instructions, to lead you to suppose that getting on the Astral Plane is mere child's play. The Sorcery Club It was a wholly logical recoil from the idleness, the lack of purpose, the slipshod self-indulgence under many names that I saw, and see, everywhere about me. Queed But while he nurses his vitality and cares for his health he does not use the sun as an excuse for laziness or for slipshod work. The Congo and Coasts of Africa I am very much pleased to see that you are beginning to call attention to the extremely slipshod and careless style of our ordinary magazine-writers. Reviews His highest quality was his tenacity of purpose, and his disposition was inclined to kindly tolerance, even of pecuniary greed and slipshod service. France in the Nineteenth Century She began to scuff with her slipshod, twisted shoes, pushing herself. Real Folks To people of slipshod habits, his painstaking exactness was of course highly exasperating, and I often myself felt that he was in need of a redeeming vice. Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories In addition to this, the men carry bamboo spears with iron points as a slipshod measure of defence against possible attacks from wild animals. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama What is painful about it is its style, which is slipshod and careless. Reviews By some unknowable miracle of birth or training he has come by a love of beauty, a reverence for what is fine and true, an absolute intolerance of the slipshod and insincere. Shandygaff Next I meet an unhappy slipshod gentleman with a cloak flung hastily over his shoulders, running a race with boisterous winds and striving to glide between the drops of rain. Twice Told Tales Small houses were built and furnished, but no persons were paid or authorized to take charge of them, and the business was managed in the well-meaning but slipshod English fashion. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 The slipshod 'prentice from his master's door, Had pared the street, and sprinkled round the floor. The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 Can you afford to do slipshod, evasive, hypocritical work? Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors At the outset, the writing is a little slipshod. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891 There must be some two or three hundred of us, and a wretched, slipshod lot we looked. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. A similar difficulty arises with the words which, in the somewhat slipshod use of everyday life, have come to have as it were a sliding value. The Making of Arguments An over-full house, with an unordered, slipshod life, hungry, clinging desperately in its poverty to an old prestige of rank, one worker inside patiently bearing the whole selfish burden. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Seemingly, Edison is the most careless, indifferent and slipshod of men, but the real fact is that such a thorough business general the world has seldom seen. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great My memory has never been good since and my methods of reading and thinking are hurried and slipshod, but this is a small thing compared with the lack of any philosophy of life. The "Goldfish" But the slipshod, gloomy smith's attention is suddenly attracted by the hole which shows the street. Light Living beyond our means does not incorporate the thought that, in order to save every possible cent, we should become slipshod and shabby. Laugh and Live Even when he does take the trouble to ascertain the facts, he is inclined to be hasty and slipshod in his methods. Analyzing Character Wells, a master who allowed nothing to go slipshod. The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air Sir Sidney thinks that this and other changes, "which are all in the direction of the slipshod and the commonplace, were made on Hunt's suggestion, and that Keats acquiesced from fatigue or indifference." Old and New Masters She bestowed great care too on her enunciation, disliking the slipshod mode of pronouncing which is so common. What I Remember, Volume 2 I don't mind much those slipshod lines Dr. Johnson wrote to Thrale, telling her about life's declining from thirty-five; the furnace is in full blast for ten years longer, as I have said. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 You lose time, money, friends, temper, and will-power because you are vague and careless about making appointments and slipshod about keeping them. Analyzing Character This is a lovely example of the sceptical slipshod, and, accompanied by the miscitation of the second case, shows that inexactitude is not all on the side of the seers. The Making of Religion I had been educated in a slipshod way, no one directing anything about it--just what it occurred to the person who had charge of me to put before me. Richard Vandermarck Sometimes he hastened my perceptive powers with a slipper, and always he corrected me if I pronounced any word in a slipshod fashion. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections A thin, slipshod woman with untidy hair and a sharp face paused on the lower step and looked out at them. Ashton-Kirk, Investigator The careless, slipshod letters which Madame de Medalle "pitchforked" into the book-market, rather than edited, are highly valuable as pieces of autobiography. Sterne Haste can make you slipshod, but it can never make you graceful. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 For what fools call intuition and wise men recognize for mere slipshod reasoning! The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta He could not afford to offend a good customer, but he could thus subtly rebuke such hasty and slipshod methods. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On There was no slipshod work with him in this particular. Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. But as a rule his mode of expressing himself is destitute of any pretensions to precision; and in many instances it is a perfect marvel of literary slipshod. Sterne To be a great world-novelist you need an all-embracing humanity as well, such as we find in Tolstoy's War and Peace—but that great book, need one say, came of no slipshod speed of improvisation. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays His style was not only devoid of ornament and rhetorical device, but it was slipshod and untidy in the last degree. Collections and Recollections For the most part he fretted at accumulating tasks, did them with slipshod energy or looked out of window. Love and Mr. Lewisham Anxious to present Camden fairly, the translator is curiously uneven in manner, now stately, now slipshod, weaving melodious sentences, but forgetting to tie them up with a verb. Gossip in a Library "No man can write simpler and stronger English than the celebrated Boz, and this renders us the more annoyed at those manifold vulgarities and slipshod errors, which unhappily have of late years disfigured his productions." The Grammar of English Grammars When Ruskin came back I had made a careless and slipshod five minutes' sketch, not worth the paper it was on, as to me were not the originals. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I They had rented a little cabin, and, after the fashion of men, they make slipshod efforts at keeping house. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories In all my experience, I have never read, even in the "local news" of a country paper, such slipshod, such deplorable English. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) The immobile face, the awkward gestures, the slipshod English became suddenly transparent, revealing the real man; a man of titanic strength, of tremendous possibilities for good or evil. The Grafters This heap had been passed by the factory inspector unnoticed, the pressmen took it for granted, and Joe, in his slipshod manner, gave it no thought. The Nine-Tenths With not a few, while other, and severer branches of study are the laborious task of the day, poetry is the slipshod amusement of the evening. Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes Even his earliest poetry has in it no false, slipshod sentiment. Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans He was not at all slipshod as inspector. The Visioning The slipshod systems pursued at these institutions have been severely criticised by scientific educators, but they seem to answer the purpose for which they are intended. Modern India But now he had got those slipshod ways of speaking he could never change. The Port of Adventure ‘What do you strike the boy for, you brute?’ exclaims a slipshod woman, with two flat irons in a little basket. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people |
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