half-slipshod

Updated: May 18, 2025

She discussed the singers, showing her usual half-slipshod discrimination, dropping here and there criticisms full of acuteness. "Altogether," she concluded, "it has been a most interesting and unusual evening. Ah, there is Monsieur Gillier!" Gillier came up and received congratulations. His expression was very strange. It seemed to combine something that was morose with a sort of exultation.

Robert Smythe Hichens - The Way of Ambition