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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hit-and-miss
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a hit-and-miss advertising campaign
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Quite often though, through various hit-and-miss applications, he would get one of the engines running.
▪ The legal procedure is far too clumsy and hit-and-miss.
▪ The resolution of the many conflicts between farmers and environmentalists remains a hit-and-miss affair.
▪ Their copulations can not be the somewhat hit-and-miss gropings practised by the millipedes.
▪ We approach it in a hit-and-miss sort of way instead of through a systematic communication programme.
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hit-and-miss

a. (alternative form of hit-or-miss English)

Usage examples of "hit-and-miss".

The army stayed in those mountain for more than six months, almost until snowtime, seldom engaging in large open battles, but one hit-and-miss ambuscade or running fight or assault upon walled or stockaded hold and village after another.