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slapdash

/slap-dash/US // ˈslæpˌdæʃ //UK // (ˈslæpˌdæʃ) //

蜻蜓点水,蜻蜓点水式的,蜻蜓点水式,蜻蜓点水般

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a hasty, haphazard manner: He assembled the motor slapdash.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : hasty and careless; offhand: a slapdash answer.

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Examples

  • City staff said they don’t see any way around putting restauranteurs through a more intensive process to make their outdoor structures permanent and bring their slapdash structures up to code.

  • The signs on store windows telling us to keep six feet apart were slapdash and scrawled by hand.

  • In 1975, sports broadcasting was a more slapdash operation compared to the modern era, when announcer assignments are made weeks, months or — in the case of the Super Bowl network rotation — even years in advance.

  • While the recipe was fairly easy overall, good for late-night baking, dispersing the sticky, relatively scant batter throughout a bowl full of light popped corn was somewhat difficult — but even my slapdash efforts turned out pretty well.

  • Unlike the slapdash nature of many blockchain projects launched in 2017, Polkadot has attracted elite computer scientists and its investors include funded by prominent venture capital firms, including Polychain Capital.

  • No matter how constitutionally suspect, how costly, how slapdash, or how disappointing a grand policy might be, well, they tried.

  • To the uninitiated, it can seem all too random, slapdash, or disorienting.

  • Because of the speed of its composition, it was a fairly slapdash piece of work.

  • The risk with collage is that it can seem slapdash or myopic, its meaning opaque to anyone but the artist.

  • Balzac wrote the stranger a slapdash of a letter, as he was always doing, and forgot the incident.

  • In such slapdash, inefficient fashion this young man conducted all his personal life.

  • The craftsman of Irish blood is likely to be a little slapdash in method, and he rarely stands near the top of his trade in skill.

  • It is too hurried and slapdash, and I may have quite different opinions after we have calmed down a bit.

  • I didna gae slapdash to them wi' our young bra' bridegroom, to gar them baud up the market.