slapdash

Example Sentences

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Brook's misdemeanour occurred before England touched ground in Australia, but it typified the slapdash approach to regaining the urn.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

The composition of these black-and-white street photographs seems slapdash, but the images work brilliantly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

“They have a lot of bodyguards and a lot of cops in the form of alligators, you don’t have to pay them so much,” Trump said of the slapdash holding facility.

From Salon • Jul. 1, 2025

What cannot be explained away is the slapdash manner and lack of basic organisation that allowed rejuvenated Wolves to record a fourth straight top-flight success for the first time since January 1972.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2025

Even through a coat of grime the slapdash quality of the paintings was evident, with their stiff, awkwardly posed figures and dizzying parade of symbols.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood