slapdash
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From slap + dash. First attested in the late 17th century, meaning "careless".
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]slapdash (comparative more slapdash, superlative most slapdash)
- Produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.
- 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 114:
- They had seen Poland, and that was the sort of slovenly, slapdash place they were used to, but once across the German frontier they found everything—crops, roads, buildings—uncannily different.
- 2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian:
- When you're in the front entrance, get a feel for what's going on. Tours are never timed to coincide with breaks but if there are any children milling about, see what they're up to. If they're on a dutiful errand, for example delivering registers, the school probably encourages a responsible attitude. If they're play-fighting in the corridor without consequence, it tells a less impressive story and could mean a slapdash approach to discipline.
- 2023 May 2, Josh Taylor, Alex Hern, “‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton quits Google and warns over dangers of misinformation”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- Valérie Pisano, the chief executive of Mila – the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute – said the slapdash approach to safety in AI systems would not be tolerated in any other field.
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:careless
Descendants
[edit]- → Norwegian Bokmål: slabbedask
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: slabbedask
Translations
[edit]done hastily
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Adverb
[edit]slapdash (comparative more slapdash, superlative most slapdash)
- In a hasty or careless manner.
- Directly, right there; slap-bang.
- Van Eyck signed his portrait of the Arnolfinis slapdash in the center of the painting.
- With a slap; all at once; slap.
- 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC:
- And yet, slap dash, is all again
In every sinew, nerve, and vein;
Runs here and there, like Hamlet's ghost
Synonyms
[edit]- (in a hasty manner): carelessly, haphazardly, hastily
- (directly): directly
Translations
[edit]in a hasty or careless manner
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Verb
[edit]slapdash (third-person singular simple present slapdashes, present participle slapdashing, simple past and past participle slapdashed)
- (colloquial) To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.
- to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall
- to slapdash a wall
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