Artist Spotlight: Cezary Gapik
Word of the Day: Haphazard
Anything haphazard is random, disorganized, slipshod, or hit-or-miss. A tent erected haphazardly might look more like a big nylon bag of dirty laundry than a place to sleep.
Ever heard the expression "I'll hazard a guess?" In it, the word hazard means "chance," as in "take a chance." Think of the hap in haphazard as short for "happen." Combine hap- and -hazard and you get something that happens (or appears to have happened) by chance. If you approach a math problem with haphazard reasoning, you're likely to get it wrong.
"Others criticized her lack of insect classification and the seemingly haphazard organization of her books." - The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science
"There’s even a spot smack in the center where a bunch of medium-to-large rocks have been arranged in a haphazard ring." - Clean Getaway
"There's the feeling of haphazard potential about his stories that makes them more thrilling than conventional Hollywood narratives, even as failure seems to be a usual outcome for his outlandish, blinkered and egotistical characters." - Salon
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