| 单词 | slapdashery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslapˈdashery slapˈdashery n. (also slapdasherie (rare)) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > carelessness or lack of thoroughness or exactness superficiality1618 perfunctoriness1626 slovenliness1641 overliness1650 perfunction1656 cursoriness1727 slightness1817 slapdash1826 rough and readiness1854 superficialism1860 slapdasherya1871 sloppiness1884 slapdashness1929 a1871 De Morgan Newton, etc. (1885) 105 One of the most stinging warnings which a biographer had ever received against what I must call the slapdashery of assertion. 1908 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 144 Here and there the people are infected with the unworthy superstition of ‘hustle’, which means half-doing your appointed job and applauding your own slapdasherie for as long a time as would enable you to finish off two clean pieces of work. a1913 F. Rolfe Desire & Pursuit of Whole (1934) vii. 60 That really huge romance..which his friend..wrote with such reprehensible slapdashery. 1966 New Statesman 14 Oct. 547/2 Sensibility and earthiness, obsession with detail and romantic slapdashery. 1982 Times 28 July 11/3 What it loses in slapdashery it gains in exuberance. < as lemmas |
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