[
UK
/hæphˈæzədli/
]
[ US /ˈhæfəzɝdɫi, hæpˈhæzɝdɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈhæfəzɝdɫi, hæpˈhæzɝdɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in a random manner
bullets were fired into the crowd at random
the houses were randomly scattered -
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
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