Haphazard

Definitions

Simple chance, a random accident, luck.

Equivalents

Examples

“You should never talk⟳ about your own⟳ fingers, and haphazards, to genteel people. You should only talk⟳ about agreeable subjects as I do.”

“I consulted my mother, who was punctiliousness itself, and decided I must go Monday, as agreed. I should be with her again on Wednesday. On such haphazards hang⟳ men's destinies sometimes.”

“Economics depends on fickle human nature , its changeable tastes and the varying states of culture and the haphazards of progress⟳ . Can economics be any more scientific than psychology and psychiatry?”

“Machiavelli, in Chapter 25 of Il principe (1513) after surveying the cruelties and haphazards of the politics of his day, set⟳ more restrictive limits to human endeavor by assigning half of what happens in this domain to the intractable power of fortuna […]”

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