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

She undermined the basic argument that content creators have made against AI firms: that the process of feeding their AI models data indiscriminately “scraped” from the internet inevitably involves using copyrighted content without permission.

From Los Angeles Times

Bulls***ting is deceiving people about one’s motives — using true or false claims indiscriminately — and is a more accurate description of his routine behavior.

From Salon

The UN said Palestinian armed groups have waged war from densely-populated areas and indiscriminately used projectiles, likely contributing to the death toll, while the IDF has destroyed civilian infrastructure and "left many of those alive, injured, displaced and starving, without access to adequate water, food or healthcare".

From BBC

In the midst of all this, a movie about innocent people being killed indiscriminately with lumber machinery functioned as a kind of primal scream.

From Slate

Union materials prepared for a board of directors meeting, which were obtained by The Times, state the rationale for taking such a stand: “the arms named have been used in violations of U.S. and international law, indiscriminately killing large numbers of civilians, many of them children.”

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

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