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slapdash

[ slap-dash ]

adverb

  1. in a hasty, haphazard manner:

    He assembled the motor slapdash.



adjective

  1. hasty and careless; offhand:

    a slapdash answer.

slapdash

/ ˈslæpˌdæʃ /

adverb

  1. in a careless, hasty, or haphazard manner


adjective

  1. careless, hasty, or haphazard

noun

  1. slapdash activity or work
  2. another name for roughcast

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Word History and Origins

Origin of slapdash1

1670–80; slap 1 (adv.) + dash 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of slapdash1

C17: from slap + dash 1

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Example Sentences

No matter how constitutionally suspect, how costly, how slapdash, or how disappointing a grand policy might be, well, they tried.

To the uninitiated, it can seem all too random, slapdash, or disorienting.

Because of the speed of its composition, it was a fairly slapdash piece of work.

The risk with collage is that it can seem slapdash or myopic, its meaning opaque to anyone but the artist.

Balzac wrote the stranger a slapdash of a letter, as he was always doing, and forgot the incident.

In such slapdash, inefficient fashion this young man conducted all his personal life.

The craftsman of Irish blood is likely to be a little slapdash in method, and he rarely stands near the top of his trade in skill.

It is too hurried and slapdash, and I may have quite different opinions after we have calmed down a bit.

I didna gae slapdash to them wi' our young bra' bridegroom, to gar them baud up the market.

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