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helter-skelter
adjective as in with undue hurry and confusion
adverb as in carelessly, confused
Example Sentences
The slide wraps around the castle like an old helter skelter and the castle is a play den with turret.
Excerpted from Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry copyright (c) 1974 by Curt Gentry and Vincent Bugliosi.
The rest of the folk go helter-skelter thither, the nose of one under the tail of the other; but you follow a wiser fashion.
These we filled with the remaining seedlings, helter skelter, just for a splash of colour, and watered from the brook itself.
When he sees anyone coming, he gives a yell that lasts a minute, and then the whole troop sets off helter-skelter.
Helter-skelter the men rushed out, Tony and his mates in front.
But it is not only a matter of reaching a systematic instead of a helter-skelter enjoyment of 116 the offerings of the world.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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