indifferently

How To Use indifferently In A Sentence

• Both Thomas and Campbell were out for the rest of the day: their exertions were a success, though only temporary, for the sail raised and lowered indifferently As soon as they fixed the pin on the block, someone would have to go up again. A Furnace Afloat
• We use the word “genius” indifferently in speaking of the tutelar demon of a town of antiquity, or an artist, or a musician. A Philosophical Dictionary
• Barbaste, pren garde a la gatte qué bay gatoua: "-- 'Millar of Barbaste, beware of the cat' (_gatte_ means, indifferently, _cat_ or _mine_) 'which is going to kitten' (_gatoua_ has the meaning of _blowing up_, as well.) Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
• Before we proceed further, however, it may be necessary that we should give a brief attention to the lexicography of these two terms profess and confess, as English words; especially as our translators have rendered the Greek word omologia by these two words, indifferently, as though they were equivalents; and thus the English reader is Confession a Fundamental Doctrine of the Gospel Economy:
• No very definite custom or practice seems to be followed; the most common is, that several matrons preside as midwives in the lodge of the parturient, which is, especially in delayed cases, filled to suffocation with indifferently solicitous (?) relations and friends. Labor Among Primitive Peoples
• Julia wandered about the room, glancing indifferently at the bookcase, pointing out the best way of repairing the gateleg table, plumping herself down in the ragged arm-chair to see if it was comfortable, and examining the absurd twelve-hour clock with a sort of tolerant amusement. Nineteen Eighty-four
• Wheat and Indian corn had grown well; barley he described as ‘indifferently good’; but pease were ‘not worth the gathering.’
• The relative absence of conventional musical tropes doesn't mean, though, that the group approaches compositional matters indifferently.
• Of all the fragrant blossoms that haunt the woods, I know none so exquisite as that night-scented orchis which is called indifferently, the butterfly or the lily of the valley. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
• As far as I am concerned, Sarah Palin is indifferently ignorant, and not worthy of further attention or higher office until she can prover herself more worthy. Meghan McCain: "Sarah Palin is the only part of the campaign that I won’t comment on publicly."