slapdash
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The ending is slapdash and rushed, somehow missing an emotional target sitting motionless one foot away.
From Salon • Jun. 27, 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 Johnson suggests that his work became less popular simply because it was superseded by a more innovative style.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
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
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
He assumed that Lawrence, in his slapdash way with numbers, had mislaid a decimal point and meant a microcurie, a thousand times less.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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