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Scattershot

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Covering a broad range in a random and unsystematic way.

    "They were appalled by his idea of making a spy service out of a scattershot collection of Wall Street brokers, Ivy League eggheads, soldiers of fortune, ad men, news men, stunt men, second-story men, and con men."

Adjective
  1. 1
    covering a wide range in a haphazard way wordnet

Etymology

From scatter + shot.

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