slopwork — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The manufacture of slops (cheap ready-made clothing).

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Uncountable
   • usually

2. Clothing of this kind.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Uncountable
   • usually

3. Hasty, slovenly work of any kind.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Figurative
   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

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   [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.