indiscriminately
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From indiscriminate + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]indiscriminately (comparative more indiscriminately, superlative most indiscriminately)
- In an indiscriminate manner.
- 1950 May, “A Tunisian Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 335:
- Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors.
- 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 78:
- It was a very private thing, they felt, and not to be tossed indiscriminately about.
Translations
[edit]in an indiscriminate manner
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