Slapdash

 WORD OF THE DAY

slapdash / adjective / SLAP-dash

Definition
: haphazard, slipshod

Examples
"I approach any recipe with a certain degree of slapdash irreverence. I make substitutions left and right, change amounts, add spices, omit steps that I deem too troublesome or leave out ingredients altogether."
— Monika Spykerman, The Columbian (Vancouver, Washington), 1 Dec. 2021

On one hand, the disastrous, slapdash virtual learning programs enacted in March 2020 have widened equity gaps that persist to this day, particularly for children of families with unstable access to housing, broadband internet, and child care.
— Pia Ceres, Wired, 17 Jan. 2022

Did You Know?
One of the first known uses of slapdash in English came in 1679 from the British poet and dramatist John Dryden, who used it as an adverb in his play "The Kind Keeper"; or "Mr. Limberham": "Down I put the notes slap-dash."
The Oxford English Dictionary defines this sense in part as "[w]ith, or as with, a slap and a dash," perhaps suggesting the notion of an action (such as painting) performed with quick, imprecise movements.
Over 100 years later, the word acquired the adjectival sense with which we are more familiar today, describing something done in a hasty, careless, or haphazard manner.