hit-or-miss
careless; inattentive; haphazard: The professor criticized the hit-or-miss quality of our research.
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How to use hit-or-miss in a sentence
Her occasional sketches are hit-or-miss, best when they have some sly subtext.
It probes around more or less hit-or-miss until it locates something, somewhere, that looks habitable.
Circus | Alan Edward NourseWe had made a wise choice, though on a hit-or-miss formula, and we were content.
The Automobilist Abroad | M. F. (Milburg Francisco) MansfieldHe told his stories with a hit-or-miss air, as if accustomed to people of rapid apprehension.
Thomas Moore | Stephen GwynnHe enjoyed life and wasted no time on trivial worries, hit-or-miss, the keynote to his thought.
Marse Henry (Vol. 2) | Henry Watterson
A competitive game which is easy to manage is hit-or-miss illustrating.
What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes | Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Other Idioms and Phrases with hit-or-miss
Haphazardly, at random. For example, She took dozens of photos, hit or miss, hoping that some would be good. [c. 1600]
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