Example Sentences

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Unlike Brzezinski, who picks discriminatingly but never wholeheartedly at his main course, I have little difficulty finishing mine.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2012

"A committee from the Society paying for the publicity, with the aid and assistance of an advertising agency, so that the proper selling arguments could be discriminatingly advanced."

From Time Magazine Archive

The books in which worth and worthlessness were united were discriminatingly handled, the emphasis being laid on the better qualities.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

She wished to praise, but to praise discriminatingly, with the cant of æsthetic appreciation, so that he should believe that she knew.

From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert

The younger Wilson, taking his pleasures lightly and not too discriminatingly, was making an offer that meant his ultimate eclipse, and doing it cheerfully, with his eyes open.

From K by Rinehart, Mary Roberts