I had heard so much about Mrs. Ruffner's severity that I was almost afraid to see her, and trembled when I went into her presence. I had not lived with her many weeks, however, before I began to understand her.

I soon began to learn that, first of all, she wanted everything kept clean about her, that she wanted things done promptly and systematically, and that at the bottom of everything she wanted absolute honesty and frankness.

Nothing must be sloven or slipshod; every door, every fence, must be kept in repair.

~Booker T. Washington

My Dad used slipshod for things he found distasteful. It is good to relate the word back to w/o shoes, in slippers and hastily dressed. He was a formal man so I can now under stand why "slipshod" was not his cup of tea.

(SLIP-shod)

adjective
1. Careless; sloppy; shabby.
2. Wearing loose shoes or slippers, especially those worn down at the heel.

Etymology
From slip (slide) + shod (wearing shoes), past and past participle of shoe

The literal sense of this word (worn at the heel), now considered archaic, gave rise to the figurative sense (careless). The poet William Cowper used it in its original sense when he wrote these words in his 1781 poem entitled Truth:
"The shivering urchin, bending as he goes, With slipshod heels ..."

Usage
"In the lawsuit, the government stands accused of slipshod land surveys, an exaggerated advertising campaign and breaking promises." — Yu Yoshitake; Broken Promises; Asahi Shimbun (Tokyo, Japan); Jun 7, 2006.

Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/slipshod

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