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Adjective: scattershot  'ska-tu(r),shót
  1. Covering a wide range in a haphazard way
    "Sayad watched her screens and the projected course of the intruder, and the cloud of scattershot pellets expanding out from their dispersal point";
    - shotgun [N. Amer, informal], scattergun

See also: indiscriminating, undiscriminating

Encyclopedia: Scattershot