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unmethodical
adjective
Not methodical.
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Moreover, his brother Duarte, especially after becoming king, did not hesitate to lecture and reprove Henry for such shortcomings as extravagance, unmethodical habits, failure to keep promises, and lack of scruples in the raising of money.
Parks defines this kind of writing as "ironic anthropology," and his style throughout is resolutely unmethodical: a lighthearted farrago of personal anecdote, off-the-cuff social analysis, history, occasional kvetching, and small, unforgettable images, all held together by the author's wry, intelligent, unassuming, sometimes grumpy, and somehow quintessentially English voice.
At M.I.T., Endy found a group of colleagues — like him, all originally engineers by training — who were disappointed with how unmethodical a field that was termed "genetic engineering" appeared to still be: its major successes were more like imaginative, one-off works of art than systematic engineering projects.
Before 2012, the bio looks… unmethodical.
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".
But Comte aspired to free himself of a tutelage that weighed ever heavier on him, as he found the unmethodical and fickle mind of the self-taught, philanthropic aristocrat barely tolerable.
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