haphazard

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: The Hightown wicket will never be considered as a batting paradise as its dry, crumbly surface makes strokeplay rather haphazard.

Infinitive complement

say: So while the will is there, the commitment is stalling and the expected execution would appear to be haphazard to say the least.

Modifies a noun

• fashion: In HCM, new layers of cells are laid on the existing matrix in a haphazard fashion.
• manner: I must content myself with jotting down, in the most haphazard manner, whatever I think may interest you.. .
• arrangement: A large part of the charm of Cadgwith lies in the cluttered and haphazard arrangement of its houses and cottages.
• nature: His search was not one of a wild haphazard nature.
• way: They seem to be working in a haphazard way.
• approach: For some cathedrals, this haphazard approach works well - Saint Mark's in Venice, for example.

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: The narrative consists of broken pieces, thrown down in a somewhat haphazard fashion, without historical sequence.
• rather: Schooling was rather haphazard; we never went to the same school for more than four months.
• apparently: The apparently haphazard use of this inflection is a little odd, and can be confusing if it's not expected.
• slightly: The only quibble is that the navigation is slightly haphazard.
• often: The process was more often haphazard than the pursuit of a grand design.
• little: Proposals for the marking of the Trafalgar 200 celebrations next year appear to be a little haphazard, the meeting heard.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: For the most part, the location and grouping of different carvings seems entirely haphazard.
• appear: With regard to evaluation, the documentation appears haphazard.
• become: Pigments are numbered to 49, then the numbers become haphazard.