Haphazard
adjective
Not planned, without order or pattern.
The books were arranged in a haphazard manner on the shelves.
Often appears as...
- haphazard arrangement
- haphazard manner
adverb
In a manner lacking any obvious principle of organization.
The files were haphazardly scattered across the desk.
Often appears as...
- haphazardly arranged
- haphazardly scattered
adjective
Not planned, without order or pattern.
The books were arranged in a haphazard manner on the shelves.
Often appears as...
- haphazard arrangement
- haphazard manner
adverb
In a manner lacking any obvious principle of organization.
The files were haphazardly scattered across the desk.
Often appears as...
- haphazardly arranged
- haphazardly scattered
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Pro Tip 1/3Visual Chaos
Used to describe situations or things that look disorganized or messy to the eye.
His notes were a haphazard collection of thoughts.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Tone
Commonly used in casual conversation rather than formal writing.
We planned our road trip in a haphazard fashion.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
Often implies a lack of care or attention, which can be viewed negatively.
The project's haphazard execution led to its failure.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Chaos
Used to describe situations or things that look disorganized or messy to the eye.
His notes were a haphazard collection of thoughts.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Tone
Commonly used in casual conversation rather than formal writing.
We planned our road trip in a haphazard fashion.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
Often implies a lack of care or attention, which can be viewed negatively.
The project's haphazard execution led to its failure.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Chaos
Used to describe situations or things that look disorganized or messy to the eye.
His notes were a haphazard collection of thoughts.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Tone
Commonly used in casual conversation rather than formal writing.
We planned our road trip in a haphazard fashion.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
Often implies a lack of care or attention, which can be viewed negatively.
The project's haphazard execution led to its failure.
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Deborah Gordon: The...
In fact, if you watch ants at all, you end up trying to help them because they never seem to be doing anything exactly the way that you think that they ought to be doing it. So it's not really that out of these haphazard contacts, perfection arises. But it works pretty well. Ants have been around for several hundred million years.
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Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...
this is something like a terrestrial brown ball or something along those lines because it's a very sticky nest but I can't I'm not gonna attempt to climb in the tree because I think I might disturb it but I'm pretty sure there's a cup or a bowl on the inside so it looks a little bit haphazard on the
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A kinder, gentler...
So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard. That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.
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It’s time to embrace our...
or not anything that you're saying is getting through and we have evolved in a way over millions of years that these marvelous cues for communicating comprehension or confusion that are lost when we're not in the same room cities unable the haphazard learning that
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The danger of science...
why they thought moving molecules around in a specific, rather than a haphazard way, was trespassing on nature's ground. But, you know, I do what I do. I wrote the story, I moved on. I mean, I'm a journalist. We type, we file, we go to dinner. It's fine.
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Alexandra Fuller: Born...
functionally illiterate refused to read or write it's the extent that she's even a bit sort of haphazard with the English language so they're not inconsiderable literary ambitions on me and I was five also and it was during the war in what
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Can we create the...
while protecting biodiversity, conserving water and reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. So what will the future farms look like? This drone is part of a fleet that monitors the crops below. The farm may look haphazard
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The most colorful...
The gel ultimately hardens into a glass-like material, and the spheres settle into a lattice structure. The vast majority of the time, this structure is haphazard, resulting in common, or potch, opals with unremarkable exteriors.
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The danger of science...
understand why people thought this was frankenfoods why they thought molecules around in a specific rather than a haphazard way was trespassing on nature's ground but you know I do what I do I wrote the story I moved on I mean
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Safari Live - Day 222 PIPE...
still surrounded by the migration continued the haphazard hunting style but with no luck although it seems there
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Deborah Gordon: The...
In fact, if you watch ants at all, you end up trying to help them because they never seem to be doing anything exactly the way that you think that they ought to be doing it. So it's not really that out of these haphazard contacts, perfection arises. But it works pretty well. Ants have been around for several hundred million years.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...
this is something like a terrestrial brown ball or something along those lines because it's a very sticky nest but I can't I'm not gonna attempt to climb in the tree because I think I might disturb it but I'm pretty sure there's a cup or a bowl on the inside so it looks a little bit haphazard on the
Video examples
A kinder, gentler...
So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard. That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.
Video examples
It’s time to embrace our...
or not anything that you're saying is getting through and we have evolved in a way over millions of years that these marvelous cues for communicating comprehension or confusion that are lost when we're not in the same room cities unable the haphazard learning that
Video examples
The danger of science...
why they thought moving molecules around in a specific, rather than a haphazard way, was trespassing on nature's ground. But, you know, I do what I do. I wrote the story, I moved on. I mean, I'm a journalist. We type, we file, we go to dinner. It's fine.
Video examples
Alexandra Fuller: Born...
functionally illiterate refused to read or write it's the extent that she's even a bit sort of haphazard with the English language so they're not inconsiderable literary ambitions on me and I was five also and it was during the war in what
Video examples
Can we create the...
while protecting biodiversity, conserving water and reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. So what will the future farms look like? This drone is part of a fleet that monitors the crops below. The farm may look haphazard
Video examples
The most colorful...
The gel ultimately hardens into a glass-like material, and the spheres settle into a lattice structure. The vast majority of the time, this structure is haphazard, resulting in common, or potch, opals with unremarkable exteriors.
Video examples
The danger of science...
understand why people thought this was frankenfoods why they thought molecules around in a specific rather than a haphazard way was trespassing on nature's ground but you know I do what I do I wrote the story I moved on I mean
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 222 PIPE...
still surrounded by the migration continued the haphazard hunting style but with no luck although it seems there
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Quote examples
Robert Pinsky
American Poet
All questions of process require an answer that begins with a very important sentence, and the sentence is: 'Everybody is different.' Whatever way of working you name - methodical, haphazard, gets up early in the morning, sleeps all day, works at night, revises immensely, never revises at all - someone has made great work with that way.
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The Ultimate Warrior
American Wrestler
Ultimate Warrior was a character who made an impression on people. It was his intensity, his colorfulness, but also, Warrior as an identity means something to everyone. Even through all of the grumbling and haphazard approach at the beginning to developing the character's persona, there was something that people connected to.
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Cesare Beccaria
Italian Judge
If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity.
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Mark Getty
Irish Businessman
If you have the good fortune of having money, it's almost an obligation to think creatively of ways of helping other people. But it shouldn't be in a haphazard way. You need a structure, a formula, so you don't give to everything.
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Margot Fonteyn
English Dancer
Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
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Jesse Andrews
American Novelist
I watched a ton of films growing up, but in a haphazard way. There was nothing scholarly or focused about it.
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Cillian Murphy
Irish Actor
My whole career has been completely random and haphazard.
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Lou Barlow
American Musician
I'm the haphazard engineer of my own music.
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Paul McCartney
English Singer
My so-called career is a haphazard thing.
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Leo Ornstein
American Composer
Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
Quote examples
Robert Pinsky
American Poet
All questions of process require an answer that begins with a very important sentence, and the sentence is: 'Everybody is different.' Whatever way of working you name - methodical, haphazard, gets up early in the morning, sleeps all day, works at night, revises immensely, never revises at all - someone has made great work with that way.
Quote examples
The Ultimate Warrior
American Wrestler
Ultimate Warrior was a character who made an impression on people. It was his intensity, his colorfulness, but also, Warrior as an identity means something to everyone. Even through all of the grumbling and haphazard approach at the beginning to developing the character's persona, there was something that people connected to.
Quote examples
Cesare Beccaria
Italian Judge
If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity.
Quote examples
Mark Getty
Irish Businessman
If you have the good fortune of having money, it's almost an obligation to think creatively of ways of helping other people. But it shouldn't be in a haphazard way. You need a structure, a formula, so you don't give to everything.
Quote examples
Margot Fonteyn
English Dancer
Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
Quote examples
Jesse Andrews
American Novelist
I watched a ton of films growing up, but in a haphazard way. There was nothing scholarly or focused about it.
Quote examples
Cillian Murphy
Irish Actor
My whole career has been completely random and haphazard.
Quote examples
Lou Barlow
American Musician
I'm the haphazard engineer of my own music.
Quote examples
Paul McCartney
English Singer
My so-called career is a haphazard thing.
Quote examples
Leo Ornstein
American Composer
Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
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