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Indiscriminately

Indiscriminate \In`dis*crim"i*nate\, a. Not discriminate; wanting discrimination; undistinguishing; not making any distinction; confused; promiscuous. ``Blind or indiscriminate forgiveness.''
--I. Taylor.

The indiscriminate defense of right and wrong.
--Junius. -- In`dis*crim"i*nate*ly, adv.
--Cowper.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
indiscriminately

1650s, from indiscriminate + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
indiscriminately

adv. In an indiscriminate manner.

WordNet
indiscriminately
  1. adv. in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random" [syn: randomly, haphazardly, willy-nilly, arbitrarily, at random, every which way]

  2. in an indiscriminate manner; "she reads promiscuously" [syn: promiscuously]

Usage examples of "indiscriminately".

Yet it was not politic to cast her off, for she was no Metella Calva, coupling indiscriminately with the lowborn, nor did she couple with the highborn.

Any stimulus anywhere on the coelenterate body alerts the entire organism indiscriminately and results in a response of the whole, which proceeds to contract, sway, or undulate.

The arms-sisters in their black armor waded in, swinging out indiscriminately, knocking apart combatants, rounding them up at gunpoint, dragging them away by ears and arms.

Gwalchmai had learned early that the elderly farmwife had a soft, warm heart, although she treated everyone indiscriminately to the rough side of her tongue.

And, among the legs of the combatants, leapt and snapped Teddy the Pomeranian, biting friend and foe indiscriminately upon the ankles.

The general introduction of cooking stoves, and other stoves and apparatus for warming houses, within the last twenty years, which we acknowledge to be a great acquisition in comfort as well as in convenience and economy, has been carried to an extreme, not only in shutting up and shutting out the time-honored open fireplace and its broad hearthstone, with their hallowed associations, but also in prejudice to the health of those who so indiscriminately use them, regardless of other arrangements which ought to go with them.

The tyrant seldom turned the Wolves loose to kill, destroy, and burn indiscriminately.

It is not uncommon to see the cases of Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge lumped together indiscriminately, as interequivalent illustrations of the way in which the young and generous minds of that era were first fascinated and then repelled by the French Revolution.

Not at specific targets, not necessarily at cities nor even at the advancing Geeks but indiscriminately.

He walked down the alley that stank of the nightsoil that was indiscriminately thrown from the bedrooms.

From every street and every corner drove carriages filled with clowns, harlequins, dominoes, mummers, pantomimists, Transteverins, knights, and peasants, screaming, fighting, gesticulating, throwing eggs filled with flour, confetti, nosegays, attacking, with their sarcasms and their missiles, friends and foes, companions and strangers, indiscriminately, and no one took offence, or did anything but laugh.

We may pass over the crimes committed from a distance, so to speak, on unfortified towns, with fieldpieces, long-range guns, aeroplanes, and Zeppelins, merely noting that the Germans were the first to fire shells into the centre of towns indiscriminately.

Your Majesty's chaplain cannot deny that there is logic in the argument, but we do feel that the Indians' obligation should not require them to die indiscriminately and arbitrarily—of beatings, brandings, starvation rations, and other mistreatments—certainly not before they have been baptized and fully confirmed in the Faith.

The Yilanè butchered all the living creatures indiscriminately: men, women, children, animals.

When individual Cherokees robbed or assaulted white settlers and traders, the whites were unable to discriminate among the different Cherokee chiefdoms and retaliated indiscriminately against any Cherokees, either by military action or by cutting off trade.