scattershot

adjective

1. delivered over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program.

adjective

1. random; haphazardtheir approach to conservation is scattershot and unscientific

adj.1959, figurative use of term for a kind of gun charge meant to broadcast the pellets when fired (1940), from scatter (v.) + shot (n.).