Definition of "scattershot" [scattershot]

• Covering a wide range in a random way; indiscriminate: "his habit of scattershot comment on whatever issue catches his eye” ( Howell Raines). (adjective)

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• "This Romans-to-NASA section of the book prompts a gee-whiz reaction (and the wistful hope that it 's true), and Mr. Kelly has plenty of other nuggets to pass along — delivered mostly in scattershot fashion."
• "Currently, it is deployed by the Right in scattershot fashion merely to attack the people and ideas with which it disagrees."
• "And, yes, he says that sometimes, but it gets lost in all these other -- what many Republicans call scattershot day to day messages of the McCain campaign."