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Slipshod vs Yielding - What's the difference?

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Slipshod is a related term of yielding.


As adjectives the difference between slipshod and yielding

is that slipshod is done poorly or too quickly; slapdash while yielding is docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.

As a verb yielding is

.

As a noun yielding is

a concession.

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

    yielding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A concession.

    • Derived terms

    * overyielding