Example Sentences

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Carelessness, slipshodness, lack of thoroughness, are crimes against self, against humanity, that often do more harm than the crimes that make the perpetrator an outcast from society.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett

It was so new and so unaccustomed, and even the slipshodness of it was pleasant after the dry primness of my upbringing.

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary