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How to use slapdash in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective, adverb, verb

Slapdash means produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless. Example: “Van Eyck signed his portrait of the Arnolfinis slapdash in the center of the painting.”

Examples of slapdash by meaning

adjectiveProduced 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, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 114
  • If they're play-fighting in the corridor without consequence, it tells a less impressive story and could mean a slapdash approach to discipline.2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian
  • Valérie Pisano, the chief executive of Mila – the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute – said the slapdash approach to safety in AI systems would not be tolerated in any other field.2023 May 2, Josh Taylor, Alex Hern, “‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton quits Google and warns over dangers of misinformation”, in The...

adverbDirectly, right there; slap-bang.

  • Van Eyck signed his portrait of the Arnolfinis slapdash in the center of the painting.

verbTo apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.

  • to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall
  • to slapdash a wall

More sentences with slapdash

  • The female admin makes the grooming schedules of the Love Islanders – both male and female – look cursory and slapdash.2020, Rachel Johnson, Rake’s Progress: My Political Midlife Crisis, London: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry Love Islander
  • Their heavy paternalism was in some ways a better thing than the slapdash, half-bogus fraternalism of the French, or the priggish avuncularism of the British.1952, Harry Hopkins, New world arising. From the entry avuncularism
  • Hart, or a visit to the Diogenes Club that finds him shooed off to a side room for idiot sidekicks—it bungles it with bad timing and slapdash composition.2018 December 25, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly hit career lows in the abysmally unfunny Holmes & Watson”, in The…. From the entry shoo off
  • Perhaps it's for the best, if this is what his recording career has sunk to: a slapdash assortment of odds and sods from all parts of his career.1993 Dec. 16, Andy Gill, "Rock Albums: Up Until Now" by Art Garfunkel, Independent (UK) (retrieved 20 Dec 2013). From the entry odds and sods
  • The breezy humour and slapdash boisterousness of their platform rhetoric appeal to King Demos, who is apt to weary of the wearisome dialectics of the choplogics of Westminster.1909, W[illiam] T[homas] Stead, The Review of Reviews, volume 40, page 115. From the entry choplogic
  • Needless to say, toward the end of Martin's first term, the relationship he once enjoyed with President Waverly had evolved into a slapdash charade of cheap promises and cheesy smiles.2008, Jeff Spanke, Second Hand Out, page 86. From the entry cheesy

Meaning of slapdash

  1. adjective Produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.
  2. adverb In a hasty or careless manner.
  3. adverb Directly, right there; slap-bang.

Full definition of slapdash

Questions about slapdash in a sentence

How do you use slapdash in a sentence?
Slapdash is used as an adjective, adverb and verb. For example: “Van Eyck signed his portrait of the Arnolfinis slapdash in the center of the painting.”
What is a short sentence with slapdash?
“to slapdash a wall”
What does slapdash mean?
Slapdash means produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.

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