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haphazard
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  • The windows to the living room, the foyer, and the upstairs guest bathroom were broken, patched haphazardly with sheets of clear plastic or wooden boards nailed across the frames.  (source)
  • Knives of all shapes and sizes were stacked haphazardly all the way to the top.  (source)
  • Rather than showing Dylan and Logan the proper way to do it—carefully and meticulously—I just let them have at it haphazardly.  (source)
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  • The decision he made would be extremely important, but the way in which he made the decision would be careless, haphazard, and uninformed.  (source)
    haphazard = without pattern or planning
  • The village was larger than Carvahall, but it had been constructed haphazardly, the houses aligned in no particular order.  (source)
  • This would have annoyed Old Amy to no end: the haphazardness of it all, the pointlessness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • The frosting's a little messy and the sprinkles are haphazard, but overall they look pretty good.†  (source)
  • I was pretty warm in my sweater, so I started rolling up the sleeves haphazardly.  (source)
  • Lacking a discernible center, the town exists as a haphazard sprawl of subdivisions and strip malls stretching for eight or nine miles along the banks of the Colorado, directly across the river from the high-rise hotels and casinos of Laughlin, Nevada.†  (source)
  • My work shifts were split so haphazardly that it was easy to believe that my superiors had chosen them maliciously.  (source)
    haphazardly = in a manner that lacks a pattern
  • You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there....And at the end of your life, your whole existence has that same haphazard quality, too.†  (source)
    haphazard = without pattern or planning
  • Instead of being installed in racks, a bunch of routers were left haphazardly on top of the servers.†  (source)
  • Meanwhile, our haphazard little trio in the Shalyapin will take a stab at any little bit of American music they've heard on the radio.†  (source)
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