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Meaning of slopwork | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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