adverb
- In a random manner.
- usage: "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random"
- synonyms: randomly, indiscriminately, willy-nilly, arbitrarily, at random, every which way
- Without care; in a slapdash manner.
- usage: "the Prime Minister was wearing a grey 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"
- synonyms: haphazard
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