slapdash

Example Sentences

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But I also hear, incidentally, that the vetting process was "rushed" and "slapdash."

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

Root and Head elevated themselves above the rest and Michael Neser took 4-60 in an improved Australia bowling performance, but England were slapdash with the ball and Smith's dismissal was atrocious.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

The composition of these black-and-white street photographs seems slapdash, but the images work brilliantly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

District Court in Boston, that had blocked the administration’s slapdash deportations while legal challenges wend through the courts.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

This she says to the two women on the sofa, her usual peremptory rough-cut slapdash manner, and as usual she gets away with it.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood