| 单词 | slipshod |
| 释义 | slip·shod 1. a. b. < slipshod shoes > < a small slipshod girl in a dirty coarse apron — Charles Dickens > 2. a. < writes with the fluent slipshod ease of a letter writer — Edinburgh Review > b. < is surprisingly slipshod in his own use of words and his own thought — L.S.Woolf > < was at first a slipshod observer … he had a positive distaste for exactitude — D.C.Peattie > c. < these are days of fast, careless, slipshod work — E.B.Barrett > < his own research is sketchy and frequently slipshod — M.W.Straight > Synonyms: < dressed hastily and roughly, in a slipshod way > < though facile, he had the conscientious craftsman's contempt for slipshod work — J.D.Spaeth > slovenly is a strong antonym for neat or tidy implying an extreme disorderly carelessness and lazy negligent indifference < a long column — a slovenly column that marched irregularly and out of step — Kenneth Roberts > < she had become slovenly at home: she no longer reddened the hearth with pounded brick-dust, she no longer scrubbed the floor boards white and clean. Cobwebs hung in the corners — Lyle Saxon > unkempt implies negligent lack of ordinary care about grooming, smoothing, cleaning, refining, and maintaining < a somewhat dilapidated house, badly in need of a new coat of paint. The garden round it was unkempt and weedy and the gate hung askew — Agatha Christie > < abandoned mills, general stores, and unkempt houses, an air of crumbling decadence prevailing in the sidehill settlement — American Guide Series: Vermont > disheveled may suggest the ruffled disorder or disarray brought on by exertion, strenuous exercise, or coping with a series of exigent demands < the white oxen of Clitumnus are loaded with gaudy flowers, and the dancing maidens are disheveled Maenads — J.A.Symonds > sloppy may suggest a careless, loose, or messy abandon < couldn't you even take the trouble to notice that you had a spot of soot on your nose tonight … why are you so sloppy? — Sinclair Lewis > |
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