haphazardly

English

Etymology

From haphazard +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hæpˈhæzədli/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hæpˈhæzɚdli/, /hæfˈhæzɚdli/

• Audio (US):

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Adverb

haphazardly (comparative more haphazardly, superlative most haphazardly)

1. In a haphazard manner; in a random, chaotic, and incomplete manner.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178:

     Sorcery is not the exclusive prerogative of the fetish-man, but is practised haphazardly by anyone who wishes to cast a spell upon another.

   • 2020 November 22, Jan Wolfe, Tom Hals, quoting Matthew Brann, “U.S. judge calls Trump claim challenging Biden win in Pennsylvania 'Frankenstein's Monster'”, in Reuters‎^[1], retrieved November 29, 2020:

     “This claim, like Frankenstein’s Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together,” wrote Brann.

Synonyms

• at random
• haphazard
• randomly
• willy-nilly

Translations

in a haphazard manner

• Catalan: a tort i a dret, a la babalà (ca)
• Dutch: om het even wat
• Esperanto: kiel ajn
• Finnish: sattumanvaraisesti (fi), umpimähkään (fi)
• French: n’importe comment (fr), au petit bonheur (fr)
• Galician: ao azar m, a torto e a dereito, de calquera xeito
• German: planlos (de), wahllos (de), willkürlich (de), zufällig (de)
• Greek: όπως όπως (ópos ópos)
• Italian: a caso (it)
• Norwegian: tilfeldig (no), tilfeldigvis
• Polish: na chybił trafił (pl)
• Portuguese: atabalhoadamente (pt)
• Spanish: a diestro y siniestro, a la remanguillé (es), a tontas y a locas, a salto de mata (es), de cualquier modo, sin ton ni son, sin ton y sin son, a diestra y siniestra
• Swedish: händelsevis (sv), tillfällig (sv), slumpmässig (sv)
• Turkish: gelişigüzel (tr), ölçüsüz (tr), plânsız (tr), rasgele (tr), rastgele (tr), tesâdüfen (tr)