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Definition of Indiscriminately
1. Adverb. In a random manner. "Bullets were fired into the crowd at random"
Partainyms: Haphazard, Indiscriminate, Random
2. Adverb. In an indiscriminate manner. "She reads promiscuously"
Definition of Indiscriminately
1. Adverb. In an indiscriminate manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indiscriminately
Literary usage of Indiscriminately
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1862)
"AUCTIONEER—CONTRACT WITH BIDDER—HOW FAR AUCTIONEER IS BOUND TO ACCEPT ALL BIDS
indiscriminately. WE find reported in the Law Journal of Canada the case of ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"This, combined with the degraded habits of a population brought together
indiscriminately, resulted in a very high rate of mortality, to contend with which ..."
3. The Immigration Problem: A Study of American Immigration Conditions and Needs by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, William Jett Lauck, Rufus Daniel Smith (1911)
"Groups of this character usually consist of four to eight men occupying one to
two rooms, four men sleeping in a room. The rooms are used indiscriminately ..."
4. Herodotus by Herodotus, William Beloe (1830)
"To their young women they pay no regard, suffering them to live indiscriminately
with men ; but they keep a strict guard over their wives, and purchase them ..."
5. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1875)
"The object of Sociology is to explain all historical facts; not to justify them
indiscriminately, as is done by those who are unable to distinguish the ..."
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