unmethodical

It was not like him to be so unmethodical.

For him, the inability to locate the source of the trouble resulted in unmethodical chaos.

Up to this time his education had been unmethodical, leaving him behind his fellows in some subjects and far ahead of them in others.

This sort of brought to mind that there was a policy, though it was a very unmethodical policy," Moody said.

Reviewing the passages which bear on this important subject, we cannot fail to be struck by the desultory and unmethodical fashion in which it is treated.

So when Sulla saw Julilla again, he contrasted her with Hermana, and found her slipshod, careless, intellectually untutored, disordered and unmethodical, and-hateful.

To muddle, with the same origin, has a more Mr. Magoo-like quality, defined in the O.E.D. as "to busy oneself in a confused, unmethodical and ineffective manner."

In reality, they are as unmethodical as possible; they possess none of the special features by which we distinguish the introspections of experimental psychology from the casual introspections of everyday life."

At the other extreme, critics and writers such as Brecht, Sartre and Alfred Doblin claim that no text lives alone, that the text itself must be crisscrossed with its messy, unmethodical connections to the outside world.

The Commissioner referred to the finely balanced measures we have had to take in the last few years: Commissioner, we cannot continue in such an unmethodical fashion, we cannot continue to finance new priorities with the same resources.

Regarding Barth and his output, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica gives the following judgment: "his works, which were the fruits of extensive reading and a retentive memory, are unmethodical and uncritical and marred by want of taste and of clearness.

His criticism is empirical and unmethodical, based on immense and careful reading, and applied only when he feels a difficulty; and he is most successful when he has a large mass of tolerably homogeneous literature to lean on, whilst on isolated points he is often at a loss.

In 1925 he wrote Memories of life and art through sixty years, an account of his life up to that point, described as "discursive and somewhat unmethodical in treatment," but "not lacking in interest and entertainment, for Sparrow had met most of the most important figures in the professional circles of his time."