indiscriminating
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- indiscriminatingly adverb
Etymology
Origin of indiscriminating
First recorded in 1745–55; in- 3 + discriminating
Example Sentences
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What follows is not for indiscriminating pumpkin people.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 2021
It has lodged in our neurons not because it has been programmed in to serve a function, as with computers, but because the human brain is an insatiable, indiscriminating sponge.
From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2020
It helps to know that Montaigne considered himself peevish and prattling, and Shakespeare felt he'd played the indiscriminating clown.
From BBC • Jan. 2, 2016
It appears, then, that reform advocates are taking a throw-everything-against-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks approach — and reform opponents are taking a indiscriminating reject-everything-out-of-hand approach.
From Time • Jul. 16, 2013
It was like collecting, while a boy, a handful of strawberries, and devouring them at one indiscriminating gulp.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various
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