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blindly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
blindly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blindly obey (=to obey without asking any questions)
▪ He looked terrified, but blindly obeyed.
stare unseeingly/blindlyliterary (= not noticing anything, although your eyes are open)
▪ She sat down on the bed and stared unseeingly at the wall.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
follow
▪ It wasn't in his nature to follow blindly.
▪ But people who blindly follow their published footprints will, of necessity, get there after the gurus themselves.
▪ Sentences and stories hint at their subjects before hunting them down, so that you keep having to trust her and follow blindly.
▪ What the historical record shows is that people are not insects blindly following some genetic script.
stare
▪ Sinking down into the seat, she stared blindly through the windscreen, her thoughts on her distant family.
▪ Mr Rolleman was lying almost at her feet, his eyes staring blindly upward from a face of ghastly purple.
▪ After a while she gave up, and left him sitting there, staring blindly into an unimaginable future.
▪ Unexpected, it was like a surprise confrontation, and for a moment she could only stare blindly at the familiar name.
▪ Throughout the passage, Ahab stands on the deck as if transfixed, staring blindly ahead into the wind and sleet.
▪ She sensed the long look he directed at her, but continued to stare blindly ahead.
▪ His eyes were wide open, staring blindly at the ceiling - his face was a mottled blue.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He was found wandering blindly in the woods.
▪ I'm not one of these people who blindly trust authority.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A University is not some great machine which trundles on its way, going blindly about its purposes.
▪ He was delivering money and weapons but would not support the operation blindly.
▪ It wasn't in his nature to follow blindly.
▪ Maybe that was the basic problem, she told herself wearily as she now stared blindly up at the ceiling.
▪ Often they were forced to leap blindly into ravines five or ten feet deep.
▪ She wondered how many other such eagles she had blindly passed.
▪ Throughout the passage, Ahab stands on the deck as if transfixed, staring blindly ahead into the wind and sleet.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blindly

Blindly \Blind"ly\, adv. Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own.

By his imperious mistress blindly led.
--Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
blindly

Old English blindlice; see blind (adj.) + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
blindly

adv. 1 In a blind manner; without sight; sightlessly. 2 Without consideration or question.

WordNet
blindly

  1. adv. without seeing or looking; "he felt around his desk blindly"

  2. without preparation or reflection; without a rational basis; "they bought the car blindly"; "he picked a wife blindly"

Usage examples of "blindly".

Over a century after coca was taxed by the clergy, we still find reports of its satanic influences, and it is just such reports that, blindly cited by later commentators, would help to propagate the myth of coca chewing as a dangerous, addictive habit - a myth that survives to this day.

Walking through a wall in the pitch black, feeling the rough adobe as she made her way blindly down a secret passageway, was sensible?

Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly in the darkness to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute--players.

The main company of the expedition wanted to sit tight with the tents and weather it out, but Angekok insisted that we would be better off tramping blindly through the snow.

Merduks had arquebusiers up on the battlements firing blindly into the Torunnan ranks.

It snapped blindly at the biologist, coming within inches of his fingers.

They pushed their way blindly through shrubbery, Bluey cursing all the way.

No one spoke to him or even seemed to see him: several times his head was struck by an arm or hand blindly reaching out toward the platter, or raising a canape to an open mouth.

Father Cesare blindly, his mind rapidly putting all the facts together.

While Kurman and Cleer suspected Wylett blindly, The Shadow had real reasons for classing Wylett as the murderer.

As the swaying, bellowing mass swept along in the moonlight, crashing and trampling through the light outlying timber, some of the coachers were seen working their way to the lead, and the wild cattle having no settled plan, followed them blindly.

Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale.

There were many doors and many novices enwombed safely within their cells, lying blindly and deafly as bodies in a prayer ship.

She clapped her hands over her ears and stumbled blindly toward the two lane black top road some twenty feet beyond the gateless posts in front of her.

He had avoided a charge of murder, avoided riding blindly into a Seanchan trap that would have killed Tuon, and left the gholam behind for good this time.