How to Use slapdash in a Sentence

slapdash

adjective
  • The signs on store windows telling us to keep six feet apart were slapdash and scrawled by hand.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
  • If not for the slapdash bullpen, the Phillies would have won more than two of those starts.
    — Matt Gelb, Philly.com, 24 June 2017
  • The old stereo mixes can be heard as slapdash or as downright avant-garde.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Finally, half of the gifts were wrapped neatly, while the rest looked slapdash.
    — Erick M. Mas, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2019
  • This is the place where a slapdash, value-free approach to governing was bound to lead us.
    — E.j. Dionne Jr., The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2019
  • This slapdash, cash-grab sequel is not nostalgic, but in a word, taxing.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Then it is handled in a casual, slapdash way, like a paperback that slipped off a shelf.
    — Sophie Haigney, New York Times, 22 July 2021
  • Even so, the slapdash proposal might run afoul of defense hawks, who want more spending, and deficit hawks, who do not.
    — Time, 17 Jan. 2018
  • But today’s mainstream movie products feel more slapdash than ever.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Not even Dunst could elevate this slapdash slice of man-child drivel.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021
  • All hail to the poetry slam, which schooled me in the art of living a flawed, slapdash life out loud for everyone to see.
    — Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Fittings here and there were ever so slightly slanted, as if slapdash repairs had been made that didn’t mesh with the rest of the place.
    — Haruki Murakami, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
  • And what’s more perfectly imperfect than a slapdash shake of sprinkles?
    — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 29 Mar. 2018
  • This explains why there’s such a difference between the inner lagoon and the slapdash shops across the way.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Sep. 2023
  • At that slapdash mention of children, Crawley’s fiance looks stunned.
    — Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The message bought back memories of a friend in college asked me to give her slapdash undercut in my college dorm room.
    — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2022
  • This does not mean that all of the criticisms in the Slate piece are invalid, but there was a slapdash throw-the-kitchen-sink feel to it all.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2011
  • The daily menu is something of an art work itself, with a mysterious slapdash humor.
    — Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018
  • The effort was slapdash but served as embryo for a far more sophisticated effort four years later.
    — Rick Perlstein, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2021
  • In one of the fables that explains its origins, a slapdash artist paints a tiger’s head but changes his mind midway and completes the creature with a horse’s body.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2022
  • That's a very slapdash view of one of the most important exercises in your fitness arsenal.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 31 May 2023
  • This kind of slapdash approach can’t be restricted only to specific cases.
    — Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic, 3 May 2026
  • Between runways and fêtes, models sport street style looks that echo the trends and tenor of the season's shows, though often with a casual, even slapdash feel.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2022
  • What could have been a slapdash dish in lesser hands was, at the risk of exaggeration and without question, one of my favorite bites of the year.
    — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Much of this slapdash street advertising isn’t for the big chain pharmacies, but for the smaller ones — the independent and mom-and-pop shops.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The honeymoon ends fast, alas, in her latest union, a slapdash action comedy too silly and frantic to really be fun.
    — Leah Greenblatt, Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 27 Jan. 2023
  • In every place where the iPad is restricted but elegant, the Pixel Slate is open but slapdash.
    — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 27 Nov. 2018
  • Instead, the medical infrastructure of one of the world’s wealthiest nations fell apart, like a slapdash house built by one of the three little pigs.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The amiably slapdash film version, written by Jay Longino, reorients the premise.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
  • In its slapdash, wildly uneven way, Six Feet aims for a real-time reading of what’s happening in young people’s hearts and heads.
    — Chris Colin, Wired, 6 Oct. 2020

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