slapdash
/ˈslapdaʃ
/adjective
Done too hurriedly and carelessly: he gave a slapdash performance...
- This slapdash approach is already having adverse effects on Zambia, as would-be investors are not sure what the new Investment Act contains and will not put their money in unknown shadows.
- This slapdash approach to the recording and construction of an album possibly could be financially related.
- However, a few years back, I finally saw the light, and vowed to change my slapdash approach to personal finance.
Synonyms
careless, slipshod, lackadaisical, hasty, hurried, disorganized, haphazard, unsystematic, untidy, messy, thrown together, last-minute, hit-or-miss, offhand, thoughtless, heedless, negligent, neglectful, remiss, cursory, perfunctory, lax, slack
informal sloppy, shambolic, all over the place, slap-happy
British informal all over the shop
adverb dated
Hurriedly and carelessly.His cabin bordering the Upper Buffalo River Wilderness in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas is slapdash functional....
- Bent nails hold the box together; house-paint has been applied slapdash to its surface.
- This writer is characterizing the results obtained when the intellectual methodologies of postindustrial society are applied slap-dash to the Caribbean.