"scattershot" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2021, Critics Consensus, Don't Look Up:",
          "text": "Don't Look Up aims too high for its scattershot barbs to consistently land, but Adam McKay's star-studded satire hits its target of collective denial square on.",
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