slapdash
/ˈslapdaʃ/
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American sound/ˈslapdaʃ/
slapdash
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slap - dash -> slapdash
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- ‘To some he appeared disorganized, slapdash, cheerful to the point of flippancy.’
- ‘You'll learn even more from the slapdash, poorly edited, and boring sites.’
- ‘The special effects are pretty stunning - considerably better than in the first film - but the pacing is leaden, the characterisation pretty slapdash and threadbare and, well, it's still a bit long…’
- ‘She frowned at the messy handwriting and slapdash clump of phrases.’
- ‘The cavalier and slapdash approach to their documentation was not helpful in this regard.’
- ‘Its factual jurisprudence is slapdash, sloppy, and, too often, supercilious.’
- ‘I want to begin by apologizing for all of the grammatical errors, slapdash reasoning, and sloppy writing in my recent posts.’
- ‘This slapdash approach to the recording and construction of an album possibly could be financially related.’
- ‘It also details insider hiring, slapdash dismissals of whistleblower complaints, staff reassignments to field offices and sudden departures by loyal and longtime staff members that have left the office crippled.’
- ‘Her comedy is at once over the top and facile - slapdash, violent, vulgar.’
- ‘It was also callous, slapdash and neglectful of the interests of less secure and well paid workers.’
- ‘The approach is old-fashioned, research slapdash, scholarship negligible, the judgments inane, the characterisation childish, the tone sick-makingly patriotic.’
- ‘But they have a slapdash quality that points to their function as performance pieces.’
- ‘It's a rather slapdash collection of ideas, but it makes some worthwhile, if loosely supported, points.’
- ‘I know no poet who, even in quite slapdash poems, can provide more pleasant and provocative surprises.’
- ‘The cut was slapdash and messy, but it was deep and had the desired effect.’
- ‘The slapdash concrete panel wall runs east-to-west along the 50-foot long border of our back garden.’
- ‘However, a few years back, I finally saw the light, and vowed to change my slapdash approach to personal finance.’
- ‘This slapdash approach is already having adverse effects on Zambia, as would-be investors are not sure what the new Investment Act contains and will not put their money in unknown shadows.’
- ‘And paintings too, lots of them, some beautiful, some bland, some clever, some featureless, some inspiring
Synonyms
sloppy, messy, clumsy, careless, hasty, hurried, haphazard, shoddy, ad lib, at intervals, by fits and starts, dash off, dashed off, disconnectedly, do off top of head, do offhand, eccentrically, fake it, heedless, improv, improvident, improvisate, improvise, in snatches, irregularly, irresponsible, jerkily, lackadaisical, lax, make do, negligent, nonchalant, now and again, out of sequence, reckless, slipshod, spasmodically, speak off the cuff, speaking off the cuff, throw together, uncertainly, unmethodically, unpunctually
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