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Planing something out as you go, Thinking about the end result and not the plan ahead of time
Jack Sparrow is a haphazard person
haphazard by Thor_Azrail January 21, 2009
To do something without order or planning, or to seem random. Easily remembered because it sounds and is basically the same as half-assed.
His room seemed haphazard with the clothes scattered everywhere.
meaning random chance or a varietyhap·haz·ard (hap′haz′ərd)

-noun-

mere chance; accident; fortuity

-adjective-

not planned; random

-adverb-

by chance; casually
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aimless, accidental, casual, offhand, careless, slipshod, incidental, unexpected, unthinking, unconscious, uncoordinated, slovenly, reckless, unconcerned, unpremeditated, loose, indiscriminate, unsystematic, unrestricted, unselected, irregular, motley, multifarious, blind, purposeless, unplanned, chaotic,

Antonyms; careful, studied, planned.





He always had a haphazard style one had never seen him make a plan.

This was it. She was finally going to exact her long-overdue revenge, a la Uma Thurman in Kill Bill. The threat was proved to be imaginary, however, when Taylor turned to a haphazard pile of vegetables.

The location of the examples in the sections is a bit haphazard as the section started to grow beyond my previous navigation options.

Slaphazard 

Slapping something together in an haphazard fashion. Putting it together quickly and with minimal planning.

(Term coined by @comebackshane on Twitter, 20:23pm GMT 18 Apr 2011)
This is a presentation I just slaphazardly put together.
Slaphazard by slaphazard May 8, 2011

slaphazard 

adj. rafforzative. about something slapped together in a haphazard way
"note that I put it together in a slaphazard manner" (Molly, London, 2020)
slaphazard by sheng91 December 11, 2020
ADVERB, ADJECTIVE (1) At random (2) Careless, slipshod

NOUN (3) chance
Throughout, he shows how only evolution, haphazard and undirected, could have produced the minds we humans have.
Haphazard by Kersvader October 31, 2008