How to Use slapdash in a Sentence

slapdash

adjective

• If not for the slapdash bullpen, the Phillies would have won more than two of those starts.
  — Matt Gelb, Philly.com, 24 June 2017
• The signs on store windows telling us to keep six feet apart were slapdash and scrawled by hand.
  — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
• Finally, half of the gifts were wrapped neatly, while the rest looked slapdash.
  — Erick M. Mas, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2019
• The old stereo mixes can be heard as slapdash or as downright avant-garde.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• This does not mean that all of the criticisms in the Slate piece are invalid, but there was a slapdash throw-the-kitchen-sink feel to it all.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2011
• This is the place where a slapdash, value-free approach to governing was bound to lead us.
  — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2019
• Even so, the slapdash proposal might run afoul of defense hawks, who want more spending, and deficit hawks, who do not.
  — Time, 17 Jan. 2018
• Fittings here and there were ever so slightly slanted, as if slapdash repairs had been made that didn’t mesh with the rest of the place.
  — Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• The website had a homely, almost slapdash design with a light blue banner and a strange name: Slate Star Codex.
  — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2021
• In one of the fables that explains its origins, a slapdash artist paints a tiger’s head but changes his mind midway and completes the creature with a horse’s body.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2022
• Then it is handled in a casual, slapdash way, like a paperback that slipped off a shelf.
  — Sophie Haigney, New York Times, 22 July 2021
• This slapdash, cash-grab sequel is not nostalgic, but in a word, taxing.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
• The numbers that resulted are slapdash and incomplete; in the case of Gibson and Leonard, the statistics obscure the truth as much as tell it.
  — Robert O’Connell, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
• In every place where the iPad is restricted but elegant, the Pixel Slate is open but slapdash.
  — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 27 Nov. 2018
• Between runways and fêtes, models sport street style looks that echo the trends and tenor of the season's shows, though often with a casual, even slapdash feel.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2022
• As for Chanel’s slapdash twists? They were finished with iconic interlocking double-C’s that were made to catch the light.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2018
• The message bought back memories of a friend in college asked me to give her slapdash undercut in my college dorm room.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2022
• Much of this slapdash street advertising isn’t for the big chain pharmacies, but for the smaller ones — the independent and mom-and-pop shops.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• Not even Dunst could elevate this slapdash slice of man-child drivel.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021
• In its slapdash, wildly uneven way, Six Feet aims for a real-time reading of what’s happening in young people’s hearts and heads.
  — Chris Colin, Wired, 6 Oct. 2020
• The show’s only through line is Lebowitz herself, whose slapdash history of New York City is mostly just an occasion to riff.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• Back in Spring 1994, at the peak of the house’s heritage, a baby-faced Kate Moss stomped down the runway in a slapdash chignon that quickly established itself as the answer to all second-day hair woes.
  — Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2018
• But the process isn’t quite over, thanks to a screw-up emblematic of the Republicans’ slapdash effort to put together their tax plan.
  — Caroline Bankoff, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Dec. 2017
• Lessons felt slapdash and his son Milo, then a fourth-grader at Maplewood Elementary, didn’t get much in the way of live instruction.
  — oregonlive, 26 May 2021
• Instead, the medical infrastructure of one of the world’s wealthiest nations fell apart, like a slapdash house built by one of the three little pigs.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
• At that slapdash mention of children, Crawley’s fiance looks stunned.
  — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2020
• And what’s more perfectly imperfect than a slapdash shake of sprinkles?
  — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 29 Mar. 2018
• The amiably slapdash film version, written by Jay Longino, reorients the premise.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
• Ray Charles appeared in 1962 but did such a short, slapdash show that the audience pelted the stage with beer cans and management briefly imposed an alcohol ban.
  — Christopher Reynolds, latimes.com, 12 July 2018
• The daily menu is something of an art work itself, with a mysterious slapdash humor.
  — Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024