slapdash
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adverb
1.
in a hasty, haphazard manner: He assembled the motor slapdash.
adjective
2.
hasty and careless; offhand: a slapdash answer.
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| —adv | |
| 1. | in a careless, hasty, or haphazard manner |
| —adj | |
| 2. | careless, hasty, or haphazard |
| —n | |
| 3. | slapdash activity or work |
| 4. | another name for roughcast |
| [C17: from | |
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Slapdash
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Example sentences
His experiences range from coping with calves strangling in birth to dealing with a colleague's slapdash bookkeeping.
Most folks tend to side with the fourth estate and do not take into account their slapdash work.
It felt self-sufficient and confident and beautiful in our own slapdash, cross-your-fingers fashion.
The ambitions are modest, the storytelling a bit slapdash, and there's a casual looseness to the dance.
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