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Slipshod vs Hasty - What's the difference?

slipshod | hasty |

As adjectives the difference between slipshod and hasty

is that slipshod is done poorly or too quickly; slapdash while hasty is acting in haste; being too hurried or quick (eg without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it ).

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.

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    hasty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick. (e.g. Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it. )
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  • Derived terms

    * hastily * hastiness * overhasty

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