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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Did you ever see such circus folks?" "But the boy with the yellow paper may be writing us another letter," hazarded Grace. "We should have gone up boldly and confronted him." "I was more interested in slip-shod Letty," said Louise. "She looked real daggers, and what about her threat? She almost shook her fist at us."
What other phase of power carried with it such rewards, such gratitudes, such humble subservience on all sides as far as the eye could reach as that exercised by the intelligently munificent philanthropist? Intelligence! that was the note of it all. Many rich people dabbled at the giving of money, but they did it so stupidly, in such a slip-shod fashion, that they got no credit for it.
There is, however, a manifest improvement in the late ones, and in them may be traced the transition from the independent ideas of the revolution to the subsequent submission to one man: and not less striking is the transition from a slip-shod style of art to a pedantic imitation of the antique.
Then if you make yourself useful to Finot, you might get a hundred francs for an article in this new weekly review of his, in which case you would show uncommon talent, for all the articles are signed, and you cannot put in slip-shod work as you can on a small paper. In that case you would be making a hundred crowns a month.
They found out that he was living in strange company, associating with the dregs of the population of Petersburg, with slip-shod government clerks, discharged military men, beggars of the higher class, and drunkards of all sorts that he visited their filthy families, spent days and nights in dark slums and all sorts of low haunts, that he had sunk very low, that he was in rags, and that apparently he liked it.
Taken all in all, the chief virulence of the abuse was directed more against the booksellers than against Mrs. Haywood. The second mention of Eliza was also in connection with Corinna in a passage now canceled. "See next two slip-shod Muses traipse along, In lofty madness meditating song, With tresses staring from poetic dreams And never wash'd, but in Castalia's streams.
Undesirable qualities are the diffuse, verbose, redundant, inflated, prolix, ambiguous, feeble, monotonous, loose, slip-shod, dry, flowery, pedantic, pompous, rhetorical, grandiloquent, artificial, formal, ornate, halting, ponderous, ungrammatical, vague, and obscure.
For, not much more than a year before, Fulke Greville had met at Delft a man whose external adornments were simpler; a somewhat slip-shod personage, whom he thus pourtrayed: "His uppermost garment was a gown," said the euphuistic Fulke, "yet such as, I confidently affirm, a mean-born student of our Inns of Court would not have been well disposed to walk the streets in.
These cheeky rah-rah boys were very slip-shod in their speech. I don't know who these fellows are, but they're not real college men." "Say, it must be nice," remarked Hazelton, "to be able to travel about the country, stopping at such nice hotels. Laura and her friends manage to have pretty good times." "Their families are all better off than ours, in a worldly sense," Dick replied.
If one tries to imagine what Athena, the War-Goddess worshipped by the Athenian mob, was like what a mixture of bad national passions, of superstition and statecraft, of slip-shod unimaginative idealisation one may partly understand why Euripides made her so evil.
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