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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In a sudden, offhand, abrupt, random, or headlong manner; abruptly; suddenly; all at once.
  2. Dashing; offhand; abrupt; free, careless, or happy-go-lucky; rash or random; impetuous: as, a slap-dash manner; slap-dash work; a slap-dash writer.
  3. n. A composition of lime and coarse sand, mixed to a liquid consistency and applied to exterior walls as a preservative; rough-casting; harling.
  4. n. The outside plaster filling of a half-timbered house, between the beams.
  5. n. Offhand, careless, happy-go-lucky, or ill-considered action or work.
  6. n. Violent abuse.
  7. To do in a rough or careless manner.
  8. To rough-cast (a wall) with mortar.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Done hastily; haphazard; careless.
  2. adv. In a hasty or careless manner.
  3. adv. Directly, right there.
  4. v. colloquial To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. colloq. In a bold, careless manner; at random.
  2. adv. colloq. With a slap; all at once; slap.
  3. v. colloq. To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. directly.
  2. adv. in a careless or reckless manner
  3. adj. marked by great carelessness

Examples

  • “Wake up ... refuse the short term slapdash fixes our govenrment has become famous for and demand a realistic plan!!!! obama is the only candidate to get it right.”

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  • “There's nothing "slapdash" about this sentence: "Listening for his murderers, he became aware of the oppressive life of the jungle, of the collective roar of insects, as big as any city's at noon.”

    Style in Fiction

  • “My builds are getting more and more 'slapdash' and 'elegantly sloppy' euphemisms for crap since Arcadia is not around to point out the flaws in them.”

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  • “Mr. Towers wouldn't survive as an art critic because no serious journal of painting would permit him to get away with the "slapdash" comparison of Roy Lichtenstein's work with mine.”

    Complaint

  • “Who, may I ask, is being "slapdash" and violating the requirements of the "sullen art" of literary criticism?”

    Setting It Straight

  • “Mr Norman welcomed the apology but said the way the information was given out was "slapdash" and "incompetent".”

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  • “But that's not going to keep her original, "slapdash," study from being widely cited by the usual ranters.”

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  • “During submissions on penalty, the prosecution said the company had a 'slapdash' approach to maintenance, had shown no remorse and embarked on a finger-pointing exercise during the trial.”

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  • “When I don't have them around, I do a kind of slapdash version, which I will describe now.”

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  • “Other reviewers criticised the movie's lack of wit, laziness and "slapdash" execution.”

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synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. slap
  1. roughcast
  1. careless
  1. hastily
  1. haphazardly
  1. carelessly
  1. directly

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘slapdash’

  1. careless

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  8. commissionership
  1. riders'
  2. epoch-making
  3. too
  4. helter-skelter
  5. pro-israel
  6. over-subtle
  7. aslant
  8. half-insolent
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  2. achingly
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  4. undevout
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  6. prep
  7. act
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  3. stealin'
  4. straw-built
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  3. all-composite
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  6. snocle
  7. open-fronted
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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. slam-bang
  1. slapdash
  1. haphazardly
  1. haphazard

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  • myth17 Dont be slapdash on your GREs. Aug 9, 2012

  • madmouth "Please accept this small, rather slapdash token of my appreciation"

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