Hap-hazard
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Hap-hazard is an adjective meaning Alternative spelling of haphazard.
Meaning
Alternative spelling of haphazard.
Example Sentences
He would in this way discover which mixture of soil, or what sort of manure was required,—a very different thing from proceeding upon hap-hazard experience.
Besides, it is one thing to predict or operate hap-hazard, and quite another to have definite, positive convictions, leading naturally to the anticipated result.
Coal and petroleum do not occur hap-hazard in nature, but the aggregate occurrence of each product in any region forms a definite, limited horizon, which, in its continuance, is independent of the bedding plane.
To assert that no good had ever come from hap-hazard practice in the past would, perhaps, be incorrect. For aught I know the initial practice with any given drug among savage people is hap-hazard, and we all know that some valued practices with drugs are simply in imitation of practices with them among savage people.
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