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Done too carelessly
Answer for the clue "Done too carelessly ", 8 letters:
slapdash
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Word definitions for slapdash in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The program is just a slapdash mix of old, tired ideas.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from slap (v.) + dash (v.). As an adjective, "dashing, offhand, careless," from 1792. As a noun, "rough-coat, coarse plaster," from 1796.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship" [syn: haphazard , slipshod , sloppy ] adv. in a careless or reckless manner; "the shelves were put up slapdash" [syn: ...
Usage examples of slapdash.
Trees grew out of their sides at slapdash angles, curving upwards, supported by vast buttress roots.
It could have been—probably was—just that smelly mullet-head with a slapdash plan and a lot of nerve.
Terekhov picked out the lucky Tomcat by the slapdash flying style of its pilot and turned to line up on him.
So the play became an incongruous mongrel slapdashed out of contradictory elements.