slaphappy

Example Sentences

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Starting projects later than planned was a signature move of ours, which pushed us into the realm of slaphappy and barely able to focus before our finish line was in sight.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2024

Having fitted his kit with old-fashioned calfskin heads, Starr’s sturdy, slaphappy drumming achieves a newfound warmth and depth.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 21, 2019

Maybe the table was so tired that the writers had become slaphappy, but “sweet night breakfast?” won a big, goofy laugh—it was the sort of curveball construction that suited “black-ish.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 25, 2016

For what purpose?�so the pinheaded, slaphappy . . . drivers can have bigger and gorier smashups?

From Time Magazine Archive

One cut above a crank and several cuts below a thinker, Hochhuth seems very much like those dedicated slaphappy few who insist that Bacon wrote Shakespeare.

From Time Magazine Archive