slapdash

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Its storytelling verges on the slapdash, and its vision of politics as a game of personal brinksmanship can ring sentimental and shallow.

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  1. adjective Hasty and careless, as in execution: slapdash work.
  2. adverb In a reckless haphazard manner.

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  • "I hate having to rush things this way she said an eternity later when the pain lessened a little It's so slapdash-not to do things in neat stages, but to have to chop and change." —  Diane Duane - Star Trek : The Next Generation - Dark Mirror
  • Playbill bios are cheerfully slapdash, more than one makes room for personal-website URLs.
  • We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen: "The spiky documentary in their honor keeps alive the echoes of their slapdash, Smithsonian-worthy sound." —  GreenCine Daily
  • Meanwhile, the finale "Words (Between the Lines of Age)" sounds like a slapdash jam with the Stray Gators trying for all their might to sound like Crazy Horse. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Martin Scorsese may be presenting Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah, but this corrosive, slapdash, grimly exciting exposé of organized crime in and around Naples comes on like Opens Friday at The Belcourt —  NashvilleScene.com
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