scattershot
English
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[edit]scattershot (comparative more scattershot, superlative most scattershot)
- Covering a broad range in a random and unsystematic way.
- Synonym: scattergun
- 2007, Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, published 2008, page 4:
- 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.
- 2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in The New York Times[1]:
- 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.
- 2021, Critics Consensus, Don't Look Up[2]:
- 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.