indiscriminately

English

Etymology

indiscriminate +‎ -ly

Adverb

indiscriminately (comparative more indiscriminately, superlative most indiscriminately)

1. In an indiscriminate manner.
   • 1950 May, “A Tunisian Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 335:

     Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors.

   • 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 78:

     It was a very private thing, they felt, and not to be tossed indiscriminately about.

Translations

in an indiscriminate manner

• Catalan: indiscriminadament
• Dutch: lukraak (nl), zonder onderscheid
• Finnish: harkitsematta, harkitsemattomasti (fi)
• French: sans distinction, à tort et à travers (fr), indistinctement (fr)
• German: wahllos (de), willkürlich (de), unkritisch (de), querbeet (de) (informal), ohne Unterschied
• Italian: indiscriminatamente (it)
• Polish: bezkrytycznie (pl)
• Spanish: indiscriminadamente