slapdash

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Produced or carried out hastily

   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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   In a hasty or careless manner.

3. 3

   Directly, right there

   Directly, right there; slap-bang.

   • Van Eyck signed his portrait of the Arnolfinis slapdash in the center of the painting.
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   1. 4

      With a slap

      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
   2. 5

      To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner

      To 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

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