How To Use Slapdash In A Sentence
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That was the conundrum the Wall Street Journal's Joe Morgenstern couldn't quite get his head around, concluding that the movie's slapdash relationship with reality "weakens its claim to authenticity with fictional fudgings" and simultaneously "pollutes" its appeal by encumbering the action with "real-world meaning.
Variety.com
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She is obsessive about things that don't matter, and slapdash and careless about the things that do matter.
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It comes with a slightly slapdash approach to decor, a cramped open kitchen and no menu.
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His cabin bordering the Upper Buffalo River Wilderness in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas is slapdash functional.
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Vancouver and Montreal each have a style to call their own (c.f. condos, slapdash; and triplexes, ornately balconied).
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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.
Obama ad criticizes gas tax plan
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Thankfully, this isn't a covers album but the slapdash approach to production renders it a little lazy.
The Sun
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It was slightly tatty around the edges, with grubby window frames and slapdash paintwork.
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Bent nails hold the box together; house-paint has been applied slapdash to its surface.
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Her comedy is at once over the top and facile - slapdash, violent, vulgar.
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Defense secretary Gates is certainly taking serious charge; the Air Force seems to be getting dangerously slapdash, along with not taking "jointness" seriously enough:
Daimnation!: USAF leadership crashing
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Microgreens satisfy our yearning for sophistication while valiantly accommodating any slapdash sowing skills.
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When he paints with casein on wood, Doyle's style varies from precise representation to almost slapdash casualness.
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The cut was slapdash and messy, but it was deep and had the desired effect.
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Who, may I ask, is being "slapdash" and violating the requirements of the "sullen art" of literary criticism?
Setting It Straight
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She is obsessive about things that don't matter, and slapdash and careless about the things that do matter.
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I want to begin by apologizing for all of the grammatical errors, slapdash reasoning, and sloppy writing in my recent posts.
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But that's not going to keep her original, "slapdash," study from being widely cited by the usual ranters.
Libertarian Blog Place
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The more cerebral cinemagoer, however, is left in a conundrum as he or she tries to unpick the film's slapdash symbolism and script.
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When riskily was worse addison real estate to go slapdash, the episome nazimova wastrel dumpy zostera.
Rational Review
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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.
Arcadia Asylum's inventory... it's gone: asset server issues are calamities
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But if our design is slapdash and our carving is hasty, why, the proportions will be inelegant and the balance untrue.
VALENTINE PONTIFEX
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The slapdash concrete panel wall runs east-to-west along the 50-foot long border of our back garden.
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slapdash work
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This first one was a gross-out parody of horror movies that made so much money, they couldn't wait to produce this slapdash scatological sequel.
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the shelves were put up slapdash
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And paintings too, lots of them, some beautiful, some bland, some clever, some featureless, some inspiring, some slapdash, some devotional, and some so dull that even I could have painted them.
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What had he expected, some -slapdash affair by a second-rate provincial medical examiner?
AMAGANSETT
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But if our design is slapdash and our carving is hasty, why, the proportions will be inelegant and the balance untrue.
VALENTINE PONTIFEX
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He courts ambiguity, populating his paintings with shape-shifting topiary, chunks of masonry, stylized umbrella pines, fountains, city walls, column fragments, sculptures and more, including the sinister "hoods" of the paintings exhibited in New York—all of it conjured up with ham-fisted, assertive drawing and with paint-handling that ranges from elegant to slapdash.
An Anxious Modern Eyes the Eternal City
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And what else have I killed with my slapdash approach to care instructions?
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That somebody like him was going to come do this show, which is often by design very slapdash and low-fi.
Ross Luippold: Diddy Makes His Live Comedy Debut
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But if our design is slapdash and our carving is hasty, why, the proportions will be inelegant and the balance untrue.
VALENTINE PONTIFEX
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Mr Norman welcomed the apology but said the way the information was given out was "slapdash" and "incompetent".
BBC News - Home
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When I don't have them around, I do a kind of slapdash version, which I will describe now.
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The whole thing was rather slapdash and, for me, quite a bit of the latter.
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She knew that even in the most slapdash manner she could not tackle the high entertaining rooms.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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It is not only the brightness, garishness, shininess and fine detail of these pictures: the composition, too, was - by the standards of the masters - slapdash.
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It's a rather slapdash collection of ideas, but it makes some worthwhile, if loosely supported, points.
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However, a few years back, I finally saw the light, and vowed to change my slapdash approach to personal finance.
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To some he appeared disorganized, slapdash, cheerful to the point of flippancy.
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It was also callous, slapdash and neglectful of the interests of less secure and well paid workers.
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I particularly enjoyed the jolly japes and larks of Ping the Elastic Man, Tin-Can Tommy and Whoopee Hank the slapdash sheriff.
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This slapdash approach to the recording and construction of an album possibly could be financially related.
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Malcolm's work methods appear amazingly slapdash.
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The cavalier and slapdash approach to their documentation was not helpful in this regard.
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Rusty old tin sheets are nailed on to the roof or the sides of buildings to give them a slapdash appearance.
Times, Sunday Times
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To some he appeared disorganized, slapdash, cheerful to the point of flippancy.
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I want to begin by apologizing for all of the grammatical errors, slapdash reasoning, and sloppy writing in my recent posts.
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The special effects are pretty stunning - considerably better than in the first film - but the pacing is leaden, the characterisation pretty slapdash and threadbare and, well, it's still a bit long…
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She has a very slapdash approach to keeping accounts.
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The food on our most recent visit was what we've come to expect - hot, unpretentious and well-made if a bit slapdash, as befits a café.
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You'll learn even more from the slapdash, poorly edited, and boring sites.
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Giddy, gossipy and endearingly unslick, Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos chronicles the rise and fall of the most famous soccer team in the United States with slapdash glee.
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It was also callous, slapdash and neglectful of the interests of less secure and well paid workers.
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To some he appeared disorganized, slapdash, cheerful to the point of flippancy.
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Slapdash weeklies at the supermarket checkout line move by the millions circulating gossip, lies, innuendo and scandal.
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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.
Complaint
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Rusty old tin sheets are nailed on to the roof or the sides of buildings to give them a slapdash appearance.
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I know no poet who, even in quite slapdash poems, can provide more pleasant and provocative surprises.
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Obviously my slapdash cooking methods are fraught with peril.
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The band's eponymous debut was recorded in a slapdash fashion.
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And neither do you, thanks to sloppy reporting and slapdash conclusions.
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This slapdash approach is already having adverse effects on Zambia, as would-be investors are not sure what the new Investment Act contains and will not put their money in unknown shadows.
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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.
Style in Fiction
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She frowned at the messy handwriting and slapdash clump of phrases.
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For a while, in the 1730s and early '40s, he had some serious competition from Michele Marieschi, who painted a moodier but more slapdash Venice.
Canaletto's paintings showed more than the tourist side of Venice
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Christine Hardman's comments about the characteristic slapdash expeditiousness of the Church of England's methods will ring bells in many quarters, I'm sure.
General Synod: Speech Moving Motion on Women in the Episcopate
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Its factual jurisprudence is slapdash, sloppy, and, too often, supercilious.
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The 20 victory flags displayed on the plane were applied "slapdash" and they vary in size, position, attitude and alignment.
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The approach is old-fashioned, research slapdash, scholarship negligible, the judgments inane, the characterisation childish, the tone sick-makingly patriotic.
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It's entertaining but also a bit slapdash and shoddy.
The Sun
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A formal inquiry chaired by Jean Ritchie QC also found that there was "something slapdash and unmethodical in his character - an element of seeing what he could get away with".
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The look should be tough, not twinkly, so apply dark colours in a slapdash way.
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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.
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When considering the cases of tall-case pendulum clocks he remarks on their slapdash construction of butted and nailed boards.
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She is obsessive about things that don't matter, and slapdash and careless about the things that do matter.
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It is a wonderfully British conceit that our slapdash style gives us a daring edge over the chic of the French.
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She is obsessive about things that don't matter, and slapdash and careless about the things that do matter.
Times, Sunday Times
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But they have a slapdash quality that points to their function as performance pieces.
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It also details insider hiring, slapdash dismissals of whistleblower complaints, staff reassignments to field offices and sudden departures by loyal and longtime staff members that have left the office crippled.
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Other reviewers criticised the movie's lack of wit, laziness and "slapdash" execution.
PinkNews.co.uk
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Corrupt local bureaucracies and slapdash building pushed up the Turkish toll.
