Synonyms for slapdash
| Grammar : Adj |
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| Phonetic Transcription : ˈslæpˌdæʃ |
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Définition of slapdash
Origin :- 1670s, from slap (v.) + dash (v.). As an adjective, "dashing, offhand, careless," from 1792. As a noun, "rough-coat, coarse plaster," from 1796.
- adj careless
- There was no place here for the slapdash, smoking girl of the present day.
- Extract from : « The Dust Flower » by Basil King
- For to him it was intolerable to think in a hurry, to jump to slapdash decisions, to act on instincts that could not be explained.
- Extract from : « Queen Victoria » by Lytton Strachey
- It is easy in a slapdash manner to lavish sarcasms on a King who presented many tempting opportunities for satire.
- Extract from : « Lord Chatham » by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
- It stands out in contrast to American slapdash, puerile-minded pretenses at dictionary treatises on cowboy life.
- Extract from : « Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest » by J. Frank Dobie
- It is too hurried and slapdash, and I may have quite different opinions after we have calmed down a bit.
- Extract from : « Friends of France » by Various
- Balzac wrote the stranger a slapdash of a letter, as he was always doing, and forgot the incident.
- Extract from : « Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13 » by Elbert Hubbard
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