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UK
/hæphˈæzəd/
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[ US /hæpˈhæzɝd/ ]
[ US /hæpˈhæzɝd/ ]
ADVERB
-
without care; in a slapdash manner
the Prime Minister was wearing a grey suit and a white shirt with a soft collar, but his neck had become thinner and the collar stood away from it as if it had been bought haphazard
ADJECTIVE
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marked by great carelessness
sloppy workmanship
a most haphazard system of record keeping
slipshod spelling
slapdash work -
dependent upon or characterized by chance
a haphazard plan of action
his judgment is rather hit-or-miss
How To Use haphazard In A Sentence
- I love London particularly for that layered feel, for its glorious haphazardness and its unique personality, which Peter Ackroyd personisifes as William Blake's Glad Day: a radiant youth with his arms outstretched against rainbow light. MIND MELD: Real-Life Places That Inspire Exceptional World Building
- No, y’all are using terms legal terms that have established meanings in haphazard and sloppy fashion. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » 3/4
- There was only haphazard local distribution of food and milk and there were no tents. Refugees in the Age of Total War
- And a general weariness in having the same conversation about genre versus the mainstream that crops up whenever a young'un who hasn't bothered to read anything published on the internet over the last decade gets the bright idea to write in haphazard fashion about a topic that's like the same piece of gum masticated for a month. [Guest Post] Part 1: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen
- Around the walls dinted filing cabinets were cluttered haphazardly.
- A dozen sixth-years poured out from the far end, their lanterns swinging haphazardly from their jarring gait.
- First, Aristotle and his followers practise a haphazard, uncritical collection of data.
- This is a short instrumental, beginning with some haphazard sounds and then a leccy piano on heavy tremolo. Shuffleathon ’07 Review « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
- So, in a haphazard fashion, we worked our way southeast. Times, Sunday Times
- The framework or armadura, is made from lightweight wood and cane, joisted by wire here and there, looking quite haphazard really, until it catches. Artsit in fireworks - José Zuñiga, castillero