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Answer for the clue "Hasty and careless ", 8 letters:
slapdash

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Word definitions for slapdash in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slapdash \Slap"dash`\, adv. [Slap + dash.] In a bold, careless manner; at random. [Colloq.] With a slap; all at once; slap. [Colloq.] --Prior.

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.