slapdash
About 0.07 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.
- adverb In a hasty or careless manner.
- adverb Directly, right there; slap-bang.
Van Eyck signed his portrait of the Arnolfinis slapdash in the center of the painting.
- adverb With a slap; all at once; slap.
- verb To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.
to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall
Similar words
slipshod bang haphazard smack slap careless sloppy bolt slipslop slipshoddy
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and way manner in fashion approach methods affair style
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