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haphazard
/(ˌ)hæpˈhæz.ɚd/
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What does haphazard mean?
adjective
- Random; chaotic; incomplete; not thorough, constant, or consistent.
noun
- Simple chance, a random accident, luck.
adverb
- Haphazardly.
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The weakening of general beliefs clears the ground for a crop of haphazard opinions without a past or a future.
He was employing the Apprenticeship method, and his education was accomplished in one fourth the time required by the Haphazard method.
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In the morning she braided it before it was half combed, and piled and coiled it about her head in haphazard fashion.
Modern scientific hypothesis is so far from being a haphazard mental proceeding that it is perhaps hardly fair to classify it with guesses.
He and Alice had gone about among their previous flocks in quite a haphazard fashion, without thought of system, much less of deliberate purpose.