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Offhand vs Slipshod - What's the difference?

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Offhand is a related term of slipshod.


As adjectives the difference between offhand and slipshod

is that offhand is without planning or thinking ahead while slipshod is done poorly or too quickly; slapdash.

As an adverb offhand

is right away, immediately, without thinking about it.

offhand

English

Alternative forms

* off-hand

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • without planning or thinking ahead
    • She gave an offhand speech.
  • careless; without sufficient thought or consideration
    • He doesn't realise how hurtful his offhand remarks can be.
  • curt, abrupt, unfriendly
    • She was quite offhand with me yesterday.

    Synonyms

    * (without planning) impromptu, extemporaneous, off-the-cuff; see also

    See also

    * off the top of one's head

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • right away, immediately, without thinking about it
  • * Offhand , I'd guess that that's a yellow-bellied sapsucker.
  • * 1854:' William Makepeace Thackeray, ''The Rose and the Ring'' - We will have no more of this shilly-shallying! Call the Archbishop, and let the Prince and Princess be married ' offhand !
  • in an offhand manner

    • Anagrams

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    slipshod

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Done poorly or too quickly; slapdash.
  • * 1880 , ":
    • Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.
  • * 1999 Aug. 22, Johanna McGeary, " Buried Alive," Time :
    • Newspapers pointed at greedy contractors who used shoddy materials, slipshod methods and the help of corrupt officials to bypass building codes.
  • (obsolete) Wearing slippers or similarly open shoes.
  • * 1840 , :
    • [T]hey wandered up and down hardly remembering the ways untrodden by their feet so long, and crying [...] as they slunk off in their rags, and dragged their slipshod feet along the pavement.

    Synonyms

    * See also