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slapdash

adjective

ˈslap-ˈdash How to pronounce slapdash (audio)

as inrandom

lacking a definite plan, purpose, or patternthe police department's investigation of the charges against the mayor wasslapdash and not very thorough

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Recent Examples ofslapdashBut without state licenses, the shops were playing by their own set of rules — no testing,slapdashlabeling, no taxes — which even the staunchest legalization advocates feared could choke out the nascent legal industry.—

Nicholas Fandos,New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024The internet tends to flatten all that, though; a casual user might not know the difference between a trusted source and aslapdashamateur.—

Drew Harwell,Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024How about to public peace? Aid groups say the Taliban are not equipped for the wave of returnees, who have been pouring out of Pakistan and intoslapdashrelocation camps near the Torkham and Chaman border crossings.—

Hasan Ali,The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2023Their brand was chaos: live shows that were transcendent or tragicomic depending on the drugs involved; albums that interpolated brilliant Stones-adjacent youth anthems and devastating country weepers withslapdashKiss covers and improvised jams where no one played their actual instrument.—

Elizabeth Nelson,The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023See All Example Sentences forslapdash

Recent Examples of Synonyms forslapdash

Adjective

If myrandomand unscientific survey of some French opinion at all represents the nation’s as a whole, then the debut of Donald Trump’s America has left some French triste — a bit sad, even brokenhearted, and also wary and vigilant.
— Patt Morrison,Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025
Bored and with time on his hands between games against the Louisville Bats, Jayson Werth and a few of his Syracuse SkyChiefs teammates wandered over to Churchill Downs on arandomday in May, 2002.
— Dana O'Neil,New York Times, 2 May 2025

Definition ofrandom

Adjective

Even the country’s closest democratic allies and largest trading partners, Canada and Mexico, faced ridicule, seeminglyarbitraryimport tax rates, and threats of territorial ambition.
— Michael Wilner,Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Trump also began arguing that the border drawn between the U.S. and Canada is justarbitrary.
— Mary Kekatos,ABC News, 28 Apr. 2025

Definition ofarbitrary

Adjective

In lieu of federal regulation, there was ahaphazardpatchwork of state and local laws surrounding certain foods pre-1906.
— Lauren Leffer,Popular Science, 1 May 2025
Others may behaphazardpower grabs, or may amount to something more.
— Andrew Marantz,New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025

Definition ofhaphazard

Adjective

In the meantime, crowds bravederraticweather for a festive opening weekend, and even early on a Monday morning, neighbors had already begun to converge, attracted by the new sod, tender trees, and open plaza that makes this 165-year-old wedge of nature look fresh and young again.
— Justin Davidson,Curbed, 28 Apr. 2025
But Trump’serraticpurge of the federal workforce has undermined those very efforts.
— Brian Bennett,Time, 28 Apr. 2025