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haphazard

hæp'hæzәd10 senses · 236 ms
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adj/(ˌ)hæpˈhæz.əd//(ˌ)hæpˈhæz.ɚd//(ˌ)hæfˈhæz.ɚd/
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    Random; chaotic; incomplete; not thorough, constant, or consistent.

    • Do not make such haphazard changes to the settings; instead, adjust the knobs carefully, a bit at a time.
noun/(ˌ)hæpˈhæz.əd//(ˌ)hæpˈhæz.ɚd//(ˌ)hæfˈhæz.ɚd/
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    Simple chance, a random accident, luck.

    • You should never talk about your own fingers, and haphazards, to genteel people. You should only talk about agreeable subjects as I do.
    • I consulted my mother, who was punctiliousness itself, and decided I must go Monday, as agreed. I should be with her again on Wednesday. On such haphazards hang men's destinies sometimes.
adv/(ˌ)hæpˈhæz.əd//(ˌ)hæpˈhæz.ɚd//(ˌ)hæfˈhæz.ɚd/
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    Haphazardly.

    • "[...] I suspect that it mostly happens haphazard, though afterwards various noble reasons are invented. About marriage I am cynical.”

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