The word "slipshod" in literature often conveys a sense of careless neglect or a lack of refinement in character or circumstance. For instance, Robert Burns employs it to evoke a whimsical, unkempt image in the phrase "Poor slipshod giddy Pegasus" [1]. In contrast, Charles Dickens uses the term to underscore urban decay and moral disarray, describing people as "drunken, slipshod, ugly" in a grim setting [2]. Authors like James Joyce and William Makepeace Thackeray also deploy "slipshod" to sketch characters marked by curtailment of civility—whether in the depiction of a servant girl in Joyce's narrative or a character wallowing in discontent and disorder in Thackeray's work [3][4]. This varied usage highlights the term’s adaptability as a descriptor for both physical untidiness and broader moral or social laxity.