scattershot

Because as scientists build out these databases with more and more genomes, from creatures both living and extinct, the number of organisms we can identify from a scattershot examination of a single sample just keeps going up.

American cookbooks really kicked off in the mid-1800s, and for their first hundred years or so, their recipe formats were scattershot, even within a single title.

He takes our knowledge of Williams for granted, revealing crucial parts of her career in a scattershot manner.

Before, I’d have to use a scattershot method, typing random scrambled letter strings into OneLook one by one and hoping something would turn up, which could take several hours.

Snyder’s new zombie entree The Army of the Dead is too scattershot, perhaps too derivative and definitely too long.