"haphazardly" in the adverb sense

1. randomly, indiscriminately, haphazardly, willy-nilly, arbitrarily, at random, every which way

in a random manner

"the houses were randomly scattered"

"bullets were fired into the crowd at random"

2. haphazard, haphazardly

without care in a slapdash manner

"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"

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