Sekirov Dictionary

slapdash

/ˈslæpdæʃ/

adverb 3
adjective 1
verb 1
forms 5

adverb3

In a hasty or careless manner.
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Directly, right there; slap-bang.
- Van Eyck signed his portrait of the Arnolfinis slapdash in the center of the painting.
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With a slap; all at once; slap.
- And yet, slap dash, is all again In every sinew, nerve, and vein; Runs here and there, like Hamlet's ghost — 1718

adjective1

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Produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.
- They had seen Poland, and that was the sort of slovenly, slapdash place they were used to, but once across the German frontier they found everything—crops, roads, buildings—uncannily different. — 1989

verb1

(informal) To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.

forms

slapdashed · slapdashing · slapdashes · more slapdash · most slapdash

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