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Hit-or-miss   /hɪt-ɔr-mɪs/   Listen
Hit-or-miss

adjective
1.
Dependent upon or characterized by chance.  Synonym: haphazard.  "His judgment is rather hit-or-miss"






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"Hit-or-miss" Quotes from Famous Books



... capacity for quick action—all these qualities are as essential to-day as they ever were to business success. The pioneer environment reacting on our native temperament has given us these qualities in full measure, but it has also given us a habit of doing things in a hit-or-miss fashion. Our very imagination and courage applied to wrong circumstances and in perverted form have often borne ...
— Higher Education and Business Standards • Willard Eugene Hotchkiss

... the New York Central, at his invitation had a jolly midday breakfast, extending far into the afternoon. I never knew him happier or heartier. His jocund spirit rarely failed him. He enjoyed life and wasted no time on trivial worries, hit-or-miss, ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson

... eyes dimpling with delight, "you each make a splash on the wall—a big, hit-or-miss splash. Then we each try to evolve a lovely picture by few ...
— Ptomaine Street • Carolyn Wells



Words linked to "Hit-or-miss" :   haphazard, random



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