Converse of object

• become: Perhaps the Chancellor is becoming a little slapdash in his impatience to move next door in Downing street.

Modifies a noun

• way: It was clearly put together in a slapdash way, with even the typographical errors in the original academic articles retained.

• approach: Football could fairly lay claim to being unique among multimillion-pound industries in its slapdash approach to media management.

• manner: The slapdash manner in which the dossier was put together was also apparent from its mistakes.

Modifying Another Word

• too: MSBA is a good start, but still too slapdash to give great confidence that Microsoft has really grasped the importance of watertight security.

• rather: A pretty standard example of early Blake, its plotting is rather slapdash and illogical with much padding and too many coincidences.

Noun used with modifier

• bit: I wouldn't say this is my favorite of the early series, it all seems a bit slapdash.