This shows he has a slipshod memory, which is unpardonable, or else that he tells so many lies that he finds it impossible to remember all of them, and this is like having too many of the poor always with us.
None of them go nearly on all fours, they halt so much as to have neither literary nor moral value to any but slipshod thinkers.
Their products always show lack of finish due to slipshod methods, unwillingness to spend time, to take pains to bring what they do up to a standard of beautiful perfection, so far as perfection is humanly possible.
Even when he does take the trouble to ascertain the facts, he is inclined to be hasty and slipshod in his methods.
You lose time, money, friends, temper, and will-power because you are vague and careless about making appointments and slipshod about keeping them.
She pressed her hands tightly to her heart, as if to still its beating, and went tremulously to the door; thence to the stairs, to anticipate the lumbering step of the slipshod maidservent.
Their capital, which had sunk to forty dollars, was increasing again, and Goldy advised waiting long enough for it to reach the sum necessary for a slipshod wedding and establishment.
This she met by the declaration that he had all along been bent upon making her the target of universal ridicule, and that she would rather descend into an untimely grave than be married in a slipshod manner.
Suppose we cease wailing about incompetence, sleepy indifference andslipshod "help" that watches the clock.
To pretend to obey, and yet carry in your heart the spirit of revolt is to do half-hearted, slipshod work.
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.
Sometimes I wonder why the Lord lets things run slipshod like that.
He was there holding his unlighted pipe in his hand, his ears bent to catch any sound from the sick-room, when Aunt Dilly, the fat cook, came shuffling in her slipshod way up behind him.
The sameslipshod methods are seen in the ornamentation of the building.
When one considers the hopelessly slipshod manner of their building, one is obliged to admit that the wonder is that all the Mayan palaces and temples have not already crumbled to the ground.
In 'Lothair' there is a good deal ofslipshod verbiage.
It is in places at least the most slovenly and slipshod that was ever adopted by any true poet.
His written style, however faulty in other respects, is neither slipshod nor ambiguous, and passes into his conversational style by imperceptible degrees.
His writings are hopelessly commonplace in substance and slipshod in style.
My diagnoses, therefore, remainedslipshod and superficial--unsatisfactory in many cases.
Such a distribution of time is not unsatisfactory or slipshod because not all the needs that come to our attention call for thorough study.
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.
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.
With an income relieving her from the necessity of work, she would have been content to lounge slipshod about the house till the day of her death.
He knew that, as soon as his back was turned, she would relapse into slipshod ways.
Efforts are made in a large number of cases to cope with these troubles, but on some estates things are allowed to proceed in the same slipshod way, and too much responsibility is thrown on the straining process.
But we may note here that the collection of the national taxes was now carried out by a State-appointed director and his subordinates in every Department--a plan which yielded better results than former slipshod methods.
I spoke of such men as one meets in what I may call the real world: as for the others, if they feel life to be a stage, they are always going about in slipshod fashion, as if at rehearsal.
The wheel of the cistern paused in its rotations, and the slipshod servant-maid stood gaping, with pitcher in hand, as the corporal passed by with his prize.
Then there was a bat, that hung all day by his heels in the dark corner of a vault, but sallied out in slipshod style at twilight.
