Crossword clues for hit-or-miss
hit-or-miss
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hit-or-miss \hit-or-miss\ adj. performed without care or close attention; slipshod; careless; -- of the manner of performing a task. Opposite of careful, conscientious or methodical.
Syn: haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy.
Wiktionary
a. inconsistent, unpredictable, erratic; sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. alt. inconsistent, unpredictable, erratic; sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing.
WordNet
adj. dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss" [syn: haphazard]
Usage examples of "hit-or-miss".
Scarcely any place was willing to contemplate the prospect of a sea-tank trapped on its foreshore, but still capable of throwing out coelenterates for an unknown length of time, nor did even Bocker have any theories on the location of traps beyond the construction of enormous numbers of them on a hit-or-miss basis.