She is a kind of attendant and companion of the fair Julia's; and from loitering about the young lady's apartments, reading scraps of novels, and inheriting second-hand finery, has become something between a waiting-maid and a slipshod fine lady.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Was this land of mercenary, slipshod rush really what had carried Earthmen to the stars?
"Warlord of Kor"
Terry Gene Carr
2. Avoid all slipshod construction of sentences.
"Practical Grammar and Composition"
Thomas Wood