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- adverb In an
indiscriminating manner.
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Examples
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Each can be deficient or excessive, indiscriminatingly open or rigidly closed.
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Through a continual dialogue between two friends, a straight Asian woman and a gay white man, both of whom indiscriminatingly voice their thoughts, Haagen-Fagzs addresses racism, sexism, and homophobia in a humorous, yet poignant and insightful manner.
Haagen-Fagzs gay person of color 2006
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Through a continual dialogue between two friends, a straight Asian woman and a gay white man, both of whom indiscriminatingly voice their thoughts, Haagen-Fagzs addresses racism, sexism, and homophobia in a humorous, yet poignant and insightful manner.
Archive 2006-11-01 gay person of color 2006
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Beyond the man were traces of the native camp, a burnt-out fire, a roll of rags, a tattered shelter cloth stuck on two tottering sticks, and distributed indiscriminatingly were a tethered goat, a white donkey with motionless, drooping ears, and a few supercilious camels.
The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley
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To indicate the direction in which it does lie is quite unavoidably to give offence to an indiscriminatingly sensitive class.
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"Saints above, man, what talk have you of jokin 'at this hour of the day or night?" said Mrs. M'Gurk, feeling the unseasonableness acutely as a bitter gust came swooping up the slope and indiscriminatingly ruffled the rime-dusted grass-tufts and her own grizzled locks.
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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July 12, of Civil Time, also causes confusion; writers using them indiscriminatingly.
The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain 1877
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Today Jubelperser describes people who indiscriminatingly copy phrases and statements from other important persons, especially governments.
JPost Headlines 2009
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True, the compiler was very likely not endowed with a keen sense of criticism, and he has indiscriminatingly transcribed side by side all his sources "as if all were alike trustworthy" (L.W. Batten); but we should not forget that he has preserved for us pages of the highest value; even those that might be deemed of inferior trustworthiness are the only documents available with which to reconstruct the history of those times; and the compiler, even from the standpoint of modern scientific research, could hardly do anything more praiseworthy than place within our reach, as he did, the sources of information at his disposal.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Remember when I said the yanks and the brits are downright racist in indiscriminatingly condemning the Chinese when it’s the Japanese who always provoke a row.
In memory of Shiro Azuma Sun Bin 2006
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