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scattershot

adj

Etymology

From scatter + shot.

  1. inherited from *skutą✻
  2. inherited from sceot
  3. inherited from schot
  4. formed as scattershot — “scatter + shot”

Definitions

  1. Covering a broad range in a random and unsystematic way.

    • They were appalled by his idea of making a spy service out of a scattershot collection of Wall Street brokers, Ivy League eggheads, soldiers of fortune, ad men, news men, stunt men, second-story men, and con men.
    • Don't Look Up aims too high for its scattershot barbs to consistently land, but Adam McKay's star-studded satire hits its target of collective denial square on.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA