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helter-skelter

adjective as in with undue hurry and confusion

adjective as in helter-skelter

adverb as in confusedly

Weak match

adverb as in frantically

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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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On this page you'll find 68 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to helter-skelter, such as: chaotic, haphazard, hurried, arbitrary, carelessly, and confused.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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