careless work
Hastily done task
Work done without sufficient attention, effort, or concern for quality.
Careless work contains avoidable mistakes—typos, miscalculations, sloppy finishing—that proper care would have prevented.
The report was full of careless work: misspelled names, wrong dates, charts that didn't match the data.
The phrase implies the worker could have done better but didn't bother.
- sloppyCareless and untidy
- slipshodCareless and hasty
- haphazardLacking organization or plan
- cut cornersReduce effort or cost improperly
- shoddyOf poor craftsmanship
rushed · quick and dirty · messy · negligent · botched · half-baked · thrown-together · hasty · slovenly · amateurish · all thumbs · lazy · shortcuts · mistakes · missed the mark · errors · typos · smudged
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