Thesaurus / slapdash
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City staff said they don’t see any way around putting restauranteurs through a more intensive process to make their outdoor structures permanent and bring their slapdash structures up to code.
HUNDREDS OF OUTDOOR DINING STRUCTURES MIGHT HAVE TO COME DOWNMACKENZIE ELMERMAY 10, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGOThe signs on store windows telling us to keep six feet apart were slapdash and scrawled by hand.
SOME YOUNG WOMEN EMBRACED THEIR GRAY HAIR DURING THE PANDEMIC. THEY MIGHT NOT GO BACK.MAURA JUDKISAPRIL 12, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIn 1975, sports broadcasting was a more slapdash operation compared to the modern era, when announcer assignments are made weeks, months or — in the case of the Super Bowl network rotation — even years in advance.
DICK STOCKTON RETIRES AFTER THOUSANDS OF GAMES AND ONE LEGENDARY CALLMATT BONESTEELMARCH 25, 2021WASHINGTON POSTWhile the recipe was fairly easy overall, good for late-night baking, dispersing the sticky, relatively scant batter throughout a bowl full of light popped corn was somewhat difficult — but even my slapdash efforts turned out pretty well.
SIX RECIPES THAT GOT US THROUGH ANOTHER WEEKEATER STAFFMARCH 19, 2021EATERUnlike the slapdash nature of many blockchain projects launched in 2017, Polkadot has attracted elite computer scientists and its investors include funded by prominent venture capital firms, including Polychain Capital.
THE BLOCKCHAIN INDUSTRY FACES A MOMENT OF TRUTH AS HIGH-PROFILE PROJECTS GO LIVEJEFFOCTOBER 21, 2020FORTUNEBalzac wrote the stranger a slapdash of a letter, as he was always doing, and forgot the incident.
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT, VOL. 13ELBERT HUBBARDIn such slapdash, inefficient fashion this young man conducted all his personal life.
ANGELA'S BUSINESSHENRY SYDNOR HARRISONThe craftsman of Irish blood is likely to be a little slapdash in method, and he rarely stands near the top of his trade in skill.
THE OLD WORLD IN THE NEWEDWARD ALSWORTH ROSSIt is too hurried and slapdash, and I may have quite different opinions after we have calmed down a bit.
FRIENDS OF FRANCEVARIOUSI didna gae slapdash to them wi' our young bra' bridegroom, to gar them baud up the market.
WAVERLEY, OR 'TIS SIXTY YEARS HENCE, COMPLETESIR WALTER SCOTTWORDS RELATED TO SLAPDASH
- apparent
- casual
- cosmetic
- cursory
- depthless
- desultory
- empty
- evident
- exterior
- external
- flash
- flimsy
- frivolous
- general
- glib
- half-baked
- hasty
- hurried
- ignorant
- inattentive
- lightweight
- nodding
- on the surface
- one-dimensional
- ostensible
- outward
- partial
- passing
- perfunctory
- peripheral
- quick-fix
- seeming
- shallow
- shoal
- silly
- sketchy
- skin-deep
- slapdash
- slight
- smattery
- summary
- surface
- tip of the iceberg
- trivial
- uncritical
- warped
- Band-Aid
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- interim
- limited
- make-do
- makeshift
- momentary
- mortal
- overnight
- passing
- perishable
- pro tem
- pro tempore
- provisional
- provisory
- shifting
- short
- short-lived
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- transitory
- unfixed
- unstable
- volatile
- adventurous
- audacious
- bold
- brash
- daring
- determined
- devil-may-care
- fiery
- foolhardy
- frenzied
- furious
- harebrained
- harum-scarum
- hasty
- headlong
- headstrong
- heedless
- hotheaded
- ill-advised
- ill-considered
- immature
- impetuous
- improvident
- imprudent
- impulsive
- incautious
- indiscreet
- injudicious
- insuppressible
- irrational
- jumping to conclusions
- madcap
- overhasty
- passionate
- precipitant
- precipitate
- premature
- reckless
- slapdash
- temerarious
- thoughtless
- unguarded
- unthinking
- unwary
- venturesome
- venturous
- wild
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