haphazardly

[ UK /hæphˈæzədli/ ]
[ US /ˈhæfəzɝdɫi, hæpˈhæzɝdɫi/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a random manner
    bullets were fired into the crowd at random
    the houses were randomly scattered
  2. 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
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How To Use haphazardly In A Sentence

  • By contrast, the curving lines, thinly painted, brightly colored and hard-edged, circulate freely - perhaps haphazardly - in the airy space they occupy.
  • Files and folders, interspersed with loose memos and invoices, were strewn haphazardly across the desk. CODE BREAKER
  • A drum set lay abandoned in the room, drumsticks haphazardly thrown on a swiveling stool as though whoever had left them there planned to come back soon.
  • This stage furnishes the ammunition for two .45 Colt sixguns, .45 caliber blanks with enough blast to pop balloons but not send bullets around haphazardly.
  • Both the US and the UK are proposing and using x-ray scanners on people, but in the US this involves a diligent process of measurement for potential hazards, while in the UK they just get haphazardly deployed.
  • I liked to climb to the top of the tower, where uncatalogued documents and fragments left over from the Victorian rearrangement of the records were haphazardly thrown into sacks.
  • My costume had been somewhat haphazardly thrown together, the result being a cross between Mary Poppins and Nurse Matilda.
  • Vehicles are also parked haphazardly outside of designated spaces in the car park.
  • Worse still, the walls are whitewashed haphazardly; the windows have the slightest bit of lint on them, and the room's smaller than a handkerchief.
  • More seriously on the iPhone, Apple has asserted a claim to bar apps that duplicate the functionality of the built-in dialer, but this restriction has been haphazardly applied and seem mainly designed to keep Google Voice off. The Phone as App: The End of the Mobile as We Know It « Steve Wildstrom on Tech
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