scattershot

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
16
Letters
11

Definition of scattershot

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  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.”
    “The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.”
    “Don't Look Up aims too high for its scattershot barbs to consistently land, but Adam McKay's star-studded satire hits its target of collective denial square on.”
    “Oh, and then there’s the hardest challenge of all: Google, famously scattershot in its product launches and quick to abandon things, has to stay focused on a new product and actually develop a meaningful replacement to search without killing it in a year and starting over.”

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Etymology

From scatter + shot.

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9-letter words

4 words

8-letter words

20 words

7-letter words

66 words

6-letter words

109 words

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