slapdash
Example Sentences
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The movie can sometimes feel purposefully sloppy but somehow it’s never slapdash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Church scorned French Impressionism as slapdash, and Ms. Johnson suggests that his work became less popular simply because it was superseded by a more innovative style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
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
These long-standing facilities were joined this month by a slapdash detention camp in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 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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