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haphazardly

[hap-haz-erd-lee]

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adverb

in a haphazard manner; at random.

Origin:
1885–90; haphazard + -ly

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The books were heaped haphazardly across a floor muddy with the footprints of antiques hunters.

With a start, he realized it was his own landscape, haphazardly lying on its side.

For years federal money has been distributed haphazardly.

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The books were heaped haphazardly across a floor muddy with the footprints of antiques hunters.

With a start, he realized it was his own landscape, haphazardly lying on its side.

For years federal money has been distributed haphazardly.

Iceland is regularly stretched, split, and torn by violent earthquakes and haphazardly rebuilt by exploding volcanoes.

Many fields pay little attention to the need for replication or do it sparingly and haphazardly.

They occupy chairs and tables under languid ceiling fans and a haphazardly joined ceiling of corrugated plastic sheets.

Students, journalists, and other folks who toss gadgets haphazardly in a bag will know this is heaven's sent.

Her blond hair was haphazardly clipped back in a ponytail.

Also airlines were suddenly burdened with new requirements haphazardly thrown together in response to the attacks.

Burrowed haphazardly beneath the surface city, these quarries became increasingly unstable over time.

Six balls haphazardly careen around inside the largely barren rectangle of the game space.

Big pots of flowers stand haphazardly about, and an old grandfather clock chimes the hour.

It is a haphazardly made and poorly considered argument.

We repeatedly sat on, dropped and haphazardly tossed the frames without seeing them get bent out of shape.

Banks responding to investor pressure would react haphazardly.

Thousands of movies are haphazardly neglected, turning into vinegar in shoddy warehouses.

Rheinstein scatters her chair collection haphazardly about the library and living room.

Instead, they found a nightmare of substandard construction, malfunctioning equipment and haphazardly repaired leaks.

Now, suppose that instead of haphazardly interfering with the drug trade at the lowest levels.

Miles of absorbent and containment boom, often laid haphazardly and left unattended, could not stop.

Neij explained that an extended group of people have privileges on the server, and contribute haphazardly as they see fit.

The houses give the appearance of having been set down almost haphazardly on their sites.

Manhattan's avenues are haphazardly numbered affairs.

The answers lie in our haphazardly regulated pharmaceutical supply chain and the dangerous gray market that intersects.

Other sweaters are as haphazardly holey as hippie macrame.

The vehicles, the observers said, had been haphazardly but effectively camouflaged to avoid detection by.

But the look is one of happy flotsam, clotting haphazardly and dispersing with odd formality.

Also on hand are three works that use found plastic letters from store signs to spell out extra-poignant words haphazardly.

Most disturbing, perhaps, is the sight of hundreds of corpses haphazardly layered in an open.

These three fictional tales are seemingly unrelated until they intersect haphazardly at the end of the movie.

And when they fight, the different groups can move haphazardly about the battlefield, each according to its own.

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World English Dictionary

haphazard (hæpˈhæzəd)

—*adv, —adj*
1.	at random

—*adj*
2.	careless; slipshod

—n
3.	rare chance

hap'hazardly

—*adv*

hap'hazardness

—n

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