slapdash
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Root and Head elevated themselves above the rest and Michael Neser took 4-60 in an improved Australia bowling performance, but England were slapdash with the ball and Smith's dismissal was atrocious.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 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
They were slow, they were thorough; none of the slapdash arrogance and sudden deviousness that marked Karhidish officialdom.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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