indiscriminately

[in-di-skrim-uh-nit-lee]

adverb

1. without exercising discernment or making appropriate distinctions.

   Unfortunately, a lot of the bad name attributed to modern poetry is caused by people indiscriminately publishing just anything and calling it “poetry.”

2. in a haphazard or random way.

   The troops reacted to the explosion by indiscriminately firing in all directions.

Word History and Origins

Origin of indiscriminately¹

indiscriminate ( def. ) + -ly

Example Sentences

“What they’re saying to the court is, ‘We need to be able to violate the law and shoot these people indiscriminately or else it’s gonna be a melee.’

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She said she told him that the injunction filed after the Kern County raid meant he could not stop people indiscriminately in the Eastern District.

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I’m more of a “Simpsons” fan, but I’ve always appreciated “South Park” for consistently arguing throughout its 27-year run that indiscriminately deporting Mexicans is not just morally and economically wrong but foolish.

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"It is only by luck that no one else was hit by any of the bullets that were indiscriminately fired into a busy household that night."

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Vera wrote that federal officers “unleashed crowd control weapons indiscriminately and with surprising savagery.”

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