Definitions for slipshod

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Spelling: [slip-shod]
IPA: /ˈslɪpˌʃɒd/

Slipshod is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 229 anagrams from letters in slipshod (dhilopss).

Definitions for slipshod

adjective

  1. careless, untidy, or slovenly:
  2. down-at-heel; seedy; shabby.
  3. Archaic. wearing slippers or loose shoes, especially ones worn at the heel.

Origin of slipshod

First recorded in 1570-80; slip1 + shod

Examples for slipshod

Nothing must be sloven or slipshod; every door, every fence, must be kept in repair.

Sick of slipshod morality, men were sending for their wives and children.

It is slipshod spinning which is at the bottom of this difficulty.

They were far too slipshod in their methods of holding prisoners.

In Paris, the slipshod condition of the army had been publicly denounced.

What a shame that a slipshod approach by the Obama administration to such a crucial issue has put it all at risk.

It is "that blessed word Mesopotamia" of the slipshod diagnostician.

It's a job that cannot be done in slipshod, haphazard manner.

Pete Whitney's clothing was slipshod, but that alone did not give him the air he had.

The slipshod Russian way of handling things gets on his nerves.

Word Value for slipshod
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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