How to Use slipshod in a Sentence

slipshod

adjective
  • He did a slipshod job.
  • Her scholarship is slipshod at best.
  • But it too has been accused of slipshod operations by multiple sources.
    — Wil Sands, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
  • In other words, the track was intentionally slipshod.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Their nests, those altars of parental solicitude proudly built by other birds, are often slipshod affairs.
    — Christoph Irmscher, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Several of the vocalists were off pitch, the production values were slipshod, and Kevin in the second row needs to stop picking his nose.
    — Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Hanken thinks Thorius tolerates slipshod wrist bones because the animals’ bodies are so small that the forces on their joints are minuscule.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Where France continues to go wrong, apparently, is in its slipshod enforcement of justice and fairness for all people.
    — WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
  • His discourse on the platform—both strategic and slipshod—has for years earned him free publicity for his other wildly ambitious business ventures.
    — Laura Forman, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
  • But that’s no justification for slipshod management and rule-making that harms financial markets.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Problems can arise from slipshod product testing and the undetected presence of THC.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2019
  • The consumer bureau says slipshod loan servicing—the business of counseling borrowers on their options and sending them monthly bills—is largely to blame.
    — Shahien Nasiripour, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2017
  • There’s a good chance Pruitt’s first season in Knoxville will be smoother than the slipshod process through which the school settled on him as Butch Jones’s successor, but not by much.
    — Chris Johnson, SI.com, 6 July 2018
  • Although immensely lucrative, his licensing methods were often viewed as excessive, slipshod and greedy.
    — Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Its response to demands for more content moderation have been slipshod and inconsistent, but are still better than the alternative of doing nothing.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2022
  • My few newfound rituals, meanwhile, have become reassuring time-tellers, guiding the otherwise slipshod structure of my days.
    — Lindsey Tramuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Apr. 2020
  • More than anything, the defense argued that the investigation as a whole had been slipshod, and that Moye had become a scapegoat for detectives who didn’t have better answers.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • So while some failing programs are simply bad programs, providing slipshod training and credentials with little value in the labor market, others may be very good, but are just too expensive.
    — Kevin Carey, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
  • The reasons were slipshod processing by private loan servicers and tight eligibility criteria.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Upon its release, the strategy was criticized for its slipshod quality and lack of strategy recommendations.
    — Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
  • Despite facing backlash, some communities known for botched restorations have actually managed to capitalize on these slipshod repairs.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Nov. 2020
  • As internet use took off at universities elsewhere in the world, academics at Colombian institutions had to settle for a sort of slipshod internet replacement.
    — Victoria Stunt, Quartz, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Ancient Apocalypse is positively quaint by comparison with the paranoid, slipshod dreck filling many cable channels.
    — Jason Colavito, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Saturday's game was a low point, as the Mets lost 7-4 to the Milwaukee Brewers after a four-run seventh inning that was aided by some slipshod defense.
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Advocates of homeowner’s associations have steadfastly argued for owners’ right to sue over slipshod workmanship on what is often their biggest life investment.
    — John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 5 June 2017
  • Inappropriate client interaction such as hounding a woman to come over to his house late at night and slipshod work that ended with a grandmother’s eviction got a Daytona Beach attorney suspended from his law career for two years.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Children’s librarians, who saw themselves as crusaders for quality in a sector of publishing previously marked by slipshod and cavalier standards, regarded anything redolent of a low-budget series with suspicion.
    — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 12 Jan. 2017
  • Arsenal’s pressing is oddly inconsistent, often slipshod but occasionally brilliant.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Three Mile Island will always be famous not as an example of nuclear energy’s economic obsolescence, but of the nuclear industry’s slipshod management practices.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 30 May 2017
  • Franco, racing through an 85-minute marathon of misery, resorts to a kind of dramatic shorthand — at once viscerally gripping and intellectually slipshod — that leans heavily on other frames of cinematic reference.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021

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