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haphazardly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial haphazardly has 2 senses
- haphazardly(r = adv.all) arbitrarily, at random, every which way, indiscriminately, randomly, willy-nilly - in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random"
- haphazardly(r = adv.all) haphazard - without care; in a slapdash manner; "the Prime Minister was wearing a grey suit and a white shirt with a soft collar, but his neck had become thinner and the collar stood away from it as if it had been bought haphazard"
THESAURUS
haphazardly
about, aimlessly, airily, any old way, any which way, anyhow, at haphazard, at hazard, at intervals, at random, brokenly, bunglingly, by catches, by chance, by fits, by jerks, by skips, by snatches, capriciously, carelessly, casually, clumsily, cursorily, desultorily, disconnectedly, discontinuously, disregardfully, dysteleologically, erratically, fitfully, forgetfully, heedlessly, helter-skelter, here and there, hit and miss, hit or miss, in snatches, in spots, inattentively, inconsiderately, indiscriminately, inexplicably, infrequently, intermittently, irregularly, messily, occasionally, offhand, offhandedly, once over lightly, per saltum, perfunctorily, promiscuously, purposelessly, randomly, recklessly, regardlessly, skippingly, slapdash, sloppily, spasmodically, sporadically, stochastically, tactlessly, thoughtlessly, unaccountably, unguardedly, unheedfully, unheedingly, unmethodically, unmindfully, unsolicitously, unsystematically, unthinkingly, unvigilantly, unwarily, willy-nilly
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