: in a hit-or-miss manner : haphazardly
Examples of hit-or-miss in a Sentence
Adjective
your hit-or-miss schedule for taking your medication is going to land you in the hospital again
Adverb
I was learning Spanish hit or miss, mostly just by hearing my friends speak it.
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Bruce Tulgan, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Neither should be trusted often in man-to-man coverage and can be hit-or-miss in zone.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
Simon Hill, Wired News, 28 Mar. 2025
The restoration process has been so hit or miss that even groups that the administration has said are protected, like the Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black military pilots who served in a segregated World War II unit, still have deleted pages that as of Saturday had not been restored.
—arkansasonline.com, 23 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
When things are going wrong in a management relationship, the common denominator is usually unstructured, low substance, hit-or-miss communication.
—Bruce Tulgan, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Neither should be trusted often in man-to-man coverage and can be hit-or-miss in zone.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
Adverb
Inexpensive fountains like this are usually hit or miss in terms of quality, but this one has been going strong in our long-term testing for over three months.
—Simon Hill, Wired News, 28 Mar. 2025
The restoration process has been so hit or miss that even groups that the administration has said are protected, like the Tuskegee Airmen, the first Black military pilots who served in a segregated World War II unit, still have deleted pages that as of Saturday had not been restored.
—arkansasonline.com, 23 Mar. 2025
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“Hit-or-miss.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hit-or-miss. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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