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haphazardly

/hap-haz-erd-lee/US // hæpˈhæz ərd li //

胡乱地,胡乱,草草地,胡乱的

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a haphazard manner; at random.

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Examples

  • Heading back to my car, which I’d haphazardly parked in a patch of grass right off the bridge, a calm settled over me.

  • Scroll through Depop and you’ll see people out in the world, looking chic in wide-leg pants rolling in the grass or striking a pose in front of a haphazardly hung backdrop, perhaps decorated with pink cartoon cats and owls.

  • Layer your ingredients haphazardly and you’re liable to end up with a mess.

  • The lamp tilts up and down, so it functions even when it’s haphazardly thrown on upside down—a real perk that pleases my toddler, who is all about independence.

  • Imagine a collection of books—maybe millions or even billions of them—haphazardly tossed by publishers into a heaping pile in a field.

  • And, as we so often see, the compensation is only haphazardly tied to job performance.

  • We've been applying counterinsurgency doctrine (and that haphazardly), assuming that the people are the center of gravity.

  • By the ingrained shopping habits of decades, I sort haphazardly through the stained old chrome racks.

  • There'd be an awful rumpus in the complaint department if I started sending people up there haphazardly.

  • The sky was like a vast black colander perforated haphazardly with a myriad brilliant openings which paled and glowed.

  • Margaret fired her revolver haphazardly, while I held my rifle for any that gained the poop.

  • Poke your finger tips haphazardly into the dough to make marks that will catch the sauce when you pour it on generously.

  • A faint cloud layer floated by and was illuminated by the twilight so that it stretched haphazardly across the face of the sun.