What's the difference between hastily and slapdash?

Hastily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly.
  • (adv.) Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly.
  • (adv.) Passionately; impatiently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Blatter announced his decision to resign during a hastily scheduled press conference, stating he will leave Fifa after 17 years at the helm.
  • (2) Hastily packing his one-man tent, the youngster set off walking from Idomeni, alone.
  • (3) January 12, 2016 Shorten hastily responded to that debate on Twitter with a pun-laden non-answer, saying: “Cos you asked … my favourite lettuce is one that doesn’t have a 15 per cent GST on it.” Bill Shorten (@billshortenmp) Cos you asked @workmanalice - my favourite lettuce is one that doesn't have a 15 per cent GST on it.
  • (4) Amid fears in Downing Street that a traditional trade visit would have looked out of place, as protests sweep across the Arab world, the PM hastily added a six-hour stopover in Cairo, including a walkabout in Tahrir Square.
  • (5) The announcement comes ahead of two hastily scheduled press conferences by senior officials in the national development and reform commission, which heads China's climate policies, raising expectations that China may soon unveil a target, or set of targets, for easing the country's huge carbon footprint.
  • (6) The school is a collection of hastily built thatched huts scattered round a patch of empty land.
  • (7) Rhodes said the Paris talks will be approached differently to Copenhagen, which is widely viewed as a hastily patched-together failure .
  • (8) Some early concepts, sometimes hastily postulated, are being questioned.
  • (9) The Coalition wants to scrap this agreement, arguing that it was hastily conceived by vested interests and unfairly locked out local communities and the logging industry.
  • (10) The commission, however, was hastily wound up in 1948 and quickly forgotten – thanks to the US, which believed the trials were impeding Germany’s rehabilitation.
  • (11) Professor Steve Field, former chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, will chair a hastily assembled forum of medical experts that will report by the end of May or the beginning of June.
  • (12) In response to staff protests in October, Kim led a hastily-arranged “town hall” meeting to listen to concerns, which thousands of employees are thought to have attended, many connecting over the internet in the middle of the night from overseas posts.
  • (13) Theresa May, who backed remain during the referendum and endorsed a status quo which has been failing working-class communities badly, has enjoyed a boost in the polls because she hastily adopted a series of popular Ukip policies on things such as grammar schools and national security.
  • (14) The ceasefire, declared on Monday night, had brought a palpable sense of relief and optimism to Gaza, but on Friday streets were deserted once more and any shops that had opened were hastily bring down their shutters.
  • (15) This is in part due to planned obsolescence – a devious ploy by manufacturers bolstered by marketing strategies to make us fall out of love with a product hastily.
  • (16) But the high-flying lifestyle of the billionaire Wall Street financier Raj Rajaratnam began to crumble when a hastily typed, barely intelligible instant message popped on to his screen in January 2006.
  • (17) Yet instead of hastily concluding that it would cost nothing to treat a financially weak Russia as a complete pariah, the time may have come for a burst of diplomatic creativity.
  • (18) He hastily added that though the speech was being given in the heart of the Arab world, it was aimed not just at Arabs but Muslims throughout the world.
  • (19) Acknowledging dissent from one table, he hastily added: "Apologies to Fox."
  • (20) McDermott, ironically, has become something of an ally of Cellino's, despite being sacked by his lawyer by phone in February, then hastily reinstated after an outpouring of support for the manager at the next day's win over Huddersfield.

Slapdash


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a bold, careless manner; at random.
  • (adv.) With a slap; all at once; slap.
  • (v. t.) To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast; as, to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall, or to slapdash a wall.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This was, as the German said, “spectacular, wild football” featuring marvellous attacking and slapdash defending.
  • (2) After more slapdash Liverpool defending and with Martin Skrtel backing off, Adam strode through to drive low into the corner before Steve N’Zonzi bent a magnificent shot past Mignolet from outside the area.
  • (3) Joanne McCartney, Labour London Assembly member and police and crime spokesperson, said: "To rush this through is typical of Boris's slapdash approach to issues of crucial importance to Londoners.
  • (4) Judging by the slapdash nature of the marking at that set piece, Hughton’s side were missing the customarily commanding presence of the suspended Lewis Dunk at the heart of their defence.
  • (5) "The FA appears to have done no thorough research on their employees, it looks slapdash and unprofessional.
  • (6) With Cheik Tioté and Moussa Sissoko back to their best Newcastle United not only hinted at what might have been had Rafael Benítez’s appointment come a little sooner but also highlighted Manchester City’s slapdash tendencies.
  • (7) It's only on until 24 August, so I'm afraid this column will be even more slapdash than usual because I have a plane to Spain to catch.
  • (8) It was a good goal but its origins were rooted in slapdash defending on a day when, unusually, Daryl Janmaat struggled.
  • (9) It was an excellent finish but marking rarely comes more slapdash.
  • (10) This year we have the UK debut of Julian McCullough, a disheveled New Jerseyan whose stand-up majors on his own personal failings and slapdash approach to life.
  • (11) It was elegance with a serrated edge, as the Spurs recovered from a slapdash start to win 104-87 in a clinical, yet feverish, display that underlined their superiority and dethroned the reigning NBA champions, denying Miami their third title in three years.
  • (12) José Mourinho has claimed Ramires's ugly foul and red card in Saturday's Premier League defeat at Aston Villa was largely borne of frustration at the referee Chris Foy's slapdash performance.
  • (13) They cannot possibly be any more slapdash than last year’s, when the players made their own packed lunches in northern Italy and won one game 16-0 against opponents more accustomed to waiting on tables.
  • (14) This time Dimitri Payet’s slapdash pass sold James Tomkins horribly short an Lens nipped in to assume possession.
  • (15) But it is not the stories themselves that shock me – in any profession you will find cases of incompetence – but the slapdash and cosy way the authorities dealt with the doctors at fault.
  • (16) Most jobs don't ask for any particular skill beyond showing up, and much expertise is viewed with suspicion in a silly, slapdash world where the term "gatekeeper" is waved about like the lowest possible term of abuse.
  • (17) Certain players wearing black and white had temporarily come over a little slapdash but one was exempt from criticism.
  • (18) Labour pounced on it, a "welovethenhs" hashtag went viral on Twitter and Cameron was forced to dismiss his pushy young colleague's slapdash views – most of the 1.4 million NHS staff are administrators, claimed Hannan – as "eccentric".
  • (19) Nonetheless, his longer novels have sometimes suffered from the slapdash impatience that runs rife through China's marketised literary economy, often affecting professionalism in both writing and editing.
  • (20) At worst, it's a contender for gaming raspberry of the year – a slapdash effort that frankly feels unfinished, with mechanics lazily copied from far-superior games.