Thesaurus / slipshod
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That, combined with the process behind the audit — partisan, slipshod, and conspiratorial — makes for a deeply concerning precedent, particularly as other states take up similar efforts.
ARIZONA FINISHED ITS “AUDIT.” OTHER STATES ARE JUST GETTING STARTED.ELLEN IOANESSEPTEMBER 25, 2021VOXThe stalkerware was hidden from device owners, but was fully exposed to hackers who exploited the company’s slipshod security.
U.S. GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN STALKER SOFTWARE COMPANYSHANNON VAVRASEPTEMBER 2, 2021THE DAILY BEASTVirtually all of the data he claimed to have collected was either slipshod, or, more often yet, downright fabricated.
THE BOTANIST WHO DEFIED STALIN - ISSUE 99: UNIVERSALITYLEE ALAN DUGATKINAPRIL 21, 2021NAUTILUSThere is no other remedy for careless, slipshod sentence-making so effective as the construction of many periodic sentences.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERIn the first place, nearly all women's work dealing with feminine subjects is in a special degree disfigured by slipshod writing.
JOURNALISM FOR WOMENE.A. BENNETTInstead of seeking how to construct a perfect dwelling place, these slipshod builders spent most of their hours in courtship.
CREATURES OF THE NIGHTALFRED W. REESThey moved along in rather a slipshod way and sounded like soft slippers or feet in stockings.
THE EMPTY HOUSE AND OTHER GHOST STORIESALGERNON BLACKWOODToo many youths enter upon their business in a languid, half-hearted way, and do their work in a slipshod manner.
HOW TO SUCCEEDORISON SWETT MARDENIt would not only result in a slipshod lot of documents but the variation might mislead those who read it.
PAUL AND THE PRINTING PRESSSARA WARE BASSETTIt 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 DOORANNA KATHARINE GREENWORDS RELATED TO SLIPSHOD
- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- down-at-heel
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run down
- rundown
- scrubby
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
- can't hack it
- careless
- disorganized
- extravagant
- faulty
- feeble
- half-baked
- improficient
- improvident
- inapt
- incapable
- incompetent
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inefficacious
- inept
- inexpert
- not cut out for
- prodigal
- shooting blanks
- slack
- slipshod
- sloppy
- slovenly
- unfit
- unprepared
- unqualified
- unskilled
- unskillful
- untrained
- weak
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