Word: haphazardly
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...much of Album was haphazard. Comic Henry Morgan, acting as co-master of ceremonies, behaved as if he had hardly bothered to learn his cues, let alone his gags; his partner, British Actor Cyril (Peter Pan) Ritchard, ran his oh-so-English witticisms into the ground. The choreography was raggedly routine, the chorus breathless in its singing. The TV camera seemed to add unbecoming extra poundage to plumpish Martha Wright, singing I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy. Televised in black and white, no matter how magnified the screen, Album became a blurry, uneven adaptation...
...haphazard form of hockey that was played on the English fens after late fall rains had frozen into thin sheets...
...graduate students. Speaking of theses as "mere Ph.D. union cards," he urges his students to "get the thing over with in a hurry." Yet graduate researchers confess that anyone who tries to study that way under Miller is bound to run into trouble. For easy-talking Miller cannot tolerate haphazard scholarship...
Massachusetts is saddled with a haphazard system of piecemeal criminal legislation, Glueck's report states. The State lacks a unified, consistent theory of punishment and an integrative organ to coordinate the various agencies dealing with punishment and parole...
...battle is not given. Just as a newspaper, missing a number of scoops on a certain news story, may be better off a week later when it can give the full, coherent story, so a newspaper nowadays giving daily developments of-say-a revolution somewhere is, because of its haphazard reporting, sometimes at a disadvantage compared with the interpretative review offered by a weekly newsmagazine...