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slapdash
[ slap-dash ]
adverb
- in a hasty, haphazard manner:
He assembled the motor slapdash.
adjective
- hasty and careless; offhand:
a slapdash answer.
slapdash
/ ˈslæpˌdæʃ /
adverb
- in a careless, hasty, or haphazard manner
adjective
- careless, hasty, or haphazard
noun
- slapdash activity or work
- another name for roughcast
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Word History and Origins
Origin of slapdash1
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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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