Haphazardly

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  haphazardly
       adv 1: in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered";
              "bullets were fired into the crowd at random" [syn: {randomly},
               {indiscriminately}, {willy-nilly}, {arbitrarily}, {at
              random}, {every which way}]
       2: without care; in a slapdash manner; "the Prime Minister was


          wearing a gray 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" [syn: {haphazard}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "haphazardly":
     about, aimlessly, airily, any old way, any which way, anyhow,
     at haphazard, at hazard, at intervals, at random, brokenly,
     bunglingly, by catches, by chance, by fits, by jerks, by skips,
     by snatches, capriciously, carelessly, casually, clumsily,
     cursorily, desultorily, disconnectedly, discontinuously,
     disregardfully, dysteleologically, erratically, fitfully,
     forgetfully, heedlessly, helter-skelter, here and there,
     hit and miss, hit or miss, in snatches, in spots, inattentively,
     inconsiderately, indiscriminately, inexplicably, infrequently,
     intermittently, irregularly, messily, occasionally, offhand,
     offhandedly, once over lightly, per saltum, perfunctorily,
     promiscuously, purposelessly, randomly, recklessly, regardlessly,
     skippingly, slapdash, sloppily, spasmodically, sporadically,
     stochastically, tactlessly, thoughtlessly, unaccountably,
     unguardedly, unheedfully, unheedingly, unmethodically, unmindfully,
     unsolicitously, unsystematically, unthinkingly, unvigilantly,
     unwarily, willy-nilly