slopwork

Definitions

1. The manufacture of slops (cheap ready-made clothing).
   archaic, uncountable, usually
2. Clothing of this kind.
   archaic, uncountable, usually
3. Hasty, slovenly work of any kind.
   archaic, figuratively, uncountable, usually

Examples

“[Thomas] Carlyle continued as busy as ever at what he called 'the despicable craft of reviewing,' but doing his very best with it. No slop-work ever dropped from his pen.”

“This sort⟳ of literary slop-work will not suffice for your walking in the roads of life to any good purpose. It is bad work⟳. It is scrubby work⟳.”

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