slapdash
IPA: sɫˈæpdæʃ
verb
- (colloquial) To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.
adjective
- Produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.
adverb
- In a hasty or careless manner.
- Directly, right there; slap-bang.
- With a slap; all at once; slap.
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Examples of "slapdash" in Sentences
- This was not a slapdash or rushed block.
- He is going to make me totally slapdash.
- I suppose he omitted Kent as too slapdash.
- I suspect the admins will not be quite as slapdash.
- I don't want to do a slapdash job on this of all things
- It's not like this is just some kind of slapdash process.
- I made some slapdash changes and will continue to polish them up.
- I am worried first and foremost that the research is a bit slapdash.
- I quoted everything from memory, which is a slapdash thing to do at my age.
- I was convinced that article was a lot more slapdash than my other big works.
- Other reviewers criticised the movie's lack of wit, laziness and "slapdash" execution.
- When I don't have them around, I do a kind of slapdash version, which I will describe now.
- But that's not going to keep her original, "slapdash," study from being widely cited by the usual ranters.
- Who, may I ask, is being "slapdash" and violating the requirements of the "sullen art" of literary criticism?
- Mr Norman welcomed the apology but said the way the information was given out was "slapdash" and "incompetent".
- My builds are getting more and more 'slapdash' and 'elegantly sloppy' euphemisms for crap since Arcadia is not around to point out the flaws in them.
- Wake up ... refuse the short term slapdash fixes our govenrment has become famous for and demand a realistic plan!!!! obama is the only candidate to get it right.
- Mr. Towers wouldn't survive as an art critic because no serious journal of painting would permit him to get away with the "slapdash" comparison of Roy Lichtenstein's work with mine.
- During submissions on penalty, the prosecution said the company had a 'slapdash' approach to maintenance, had shown no remorse and embarked on a finger-pointing exercise during the trial.
- There's nothing "slapdash" about this sentence: "Listening for his murderers, he became aware of the oppressive life of the jungle, of the collective roar of insects, as big as any city's at noon."
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