[
UK
/hæphˈæzədli/
]
[ US /ˈhæfəzɝdɫi, hæpˈhæzɝdɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈhæfəzɝdɫi, hæpˈhæzɝdɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in a random manner
bullets were fired into the crowd at random
the houses were randomly scattered -
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
How To Use haphazardly In A Sentence
- This stage furnishes the ammunition for two .45 Colt sixguns, .45 caliber blanks with enough blast to pop balloons but not send bullets around haphazardly.
- Around the walls dinted filing cabinets were cluttered haphazardly.
- A dozen sixth-years poured out from the far end, their lanterns swinging haphazardly from their jarring gait.
- Traditionally, a food bank's shelves are filled haphazardly with whatever goods companies overproduce.
- The lounge is decorated with low-slung ottomans and gauzy white curtains and sits between a long, curving bar and a somewhat haphazardly appointed dining area.
- No, it had been rather haphazardly portioned with seemingly no utensil involved; an oozing brown viscosity trailing its ragged, blackened, peel. Snap
- Many diced, drank, argued and talked throughout the tavern, mostly on rough-hewn tables and benches that were placed somewhat haphazardly on the sawdust covered floor.
- I climbed up a stack of old crates arranged haphazardly behind the warehouse.
- Only occasional flakes came haphazardly down like white sifts of charred paper when a chimney is on fire.
- In its simplest form, grape sampling might consist of selecting some berries haphazardly from the vineyard and expressing juice into a refractometer to measure sugar content.
