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Slopwork   Listen
noun
Slopwork  n.  The manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind. "No slopwork ever dropped from his (Carlyle's) pen."






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"Slopwork" Quotes from Famous Books



... practical tranquillity that they erected five-storey houses, just as the religious articles, the chaplets, the medals, and the statuettes were manufactured by the gross in the populous quarters of Paris by merrymaking workmen who did not even follow their religion. And thus what slopwork, what toymakers', ironmongers' stuff it all was! of a prettiness fit to make you cry, a silly sentimentality fit to make your heart turn with disgust! Lourdes was inundated, devastated, disfigured by it all to such a point as to quite upset persons with any delicacy ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola



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