: in a hit-or-miss manner : haphazardly
Examples of hit-or-miss in a Sentence
Adjective
your hit-or-miss schedule for taking your medication is going to land you in the hospital again
Adverb
I was learning Spanish hit or miss, mostly just by hearing my friends speak it.
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Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 4 July 2025
Not to mention the hit-or-miss vagaries of Electrify America chargers: one day everything works, the next day multiple chargers are down.
—Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
Quality is hit or miss, and in lower-quality journals, pages are prone to falling out.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 3 June 2025
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Adjective
Truthfully, a lot of the mixtapes were hit-or-miss studio session dumps with half-assed themes.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 4 July 2025
Not to mention the hit-or-miss vagaries of Electrify America chargers: one day everything works, the next day multiple chargers are down.
—Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
Adverb
Edmunds’ touch on his passes was hit or miss Saturday — Huntington Beach scoring the third-fewest points in pool play — but his power behind every throw kept the Oilers in every contest.
—Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
Quality is hit or miss, and in lower-quality journals, pages are prone to falling out.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 3 June 2025
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“Hit-or-miss.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hit-or-miss. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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