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unsystematic

American  
[uhn-sis-tuh-mat-ik] / ˌʌnˌsɪs təˈmæt ɪk /

adjective

  1. not systematic or not methodical; haphazard; scattershot.


Other Word Forms

  • unsystematically adverb

Example Sentences

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The core of the presentation is roughly chronological but unsystematic, sampling material far-flung in time and space.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

In April, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development announced some cities had “insufficient awareness, inaccurate understanding, and unsystematic implementation of sponge city construction.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2022

It’s not just that our surveillance systems are unsystematic.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2022

Mill noted that “to be unsystematic is of the essence of all truths which rest on specific experiment,” and that there is, in a good aphorism, “generally truth, or a bold approach to some truth.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

He salvages the inferior Soviet equipment, milled from marginal steel, clumsily soldered; it’s all so unsystematic.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr