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US
/ˌɪndɪsˈkɹɪmənət/
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[ UK /ˌɪndɪskɹˈɪmɪnət/ ]
[ UK /ˌɪndɪskɹˈɪmɪnət/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not marked by fine distinctions
indiscriminate reading habits
an indiscriminate mixture of colors and styles - failing to make or recognize distinctions
How To Use indiscriminate In A Sentence
- Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion. Postmodernism
- Indiscriminate concelebration with Patriotic clergy can't be considered as permitted. Archive 2009-07-01
- Critics credit it with transforming millions of indiscriminate guzzlers into quasi foodies. Times, Sunday Times
- Separately, Russia called on the international community to stop what it called the "indiscriminate" use of force in Libya, saying it was killing civilians. Arab League Criticizes Libya No-Fly Zone Implementation
- I NOTICE that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes seem so unnatural (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane, and an indiscriminate attack on civilians. As I Please
- Libya, it was claimed, had ordered the embassy to orchestrate a night of carnage in the nightclub and ‘cause maximum and indiscriminate damages’.
- When, for example, Karl and I made the simulation more realistic and allowed for mutations, or mistakes in an evolving population of players, then we saw cooperation and defection wax and wane over time, as those with a good reputation are actually undermined by indiscriminate altruists who help anyone, no matter how well or badly the latter have behaved in the past. SuperCooperators
- Of all forms of indiscriminate almsgiving, that is the most offensive and most worthless, and they knew it, or they would not have sent me a wheedling invitation to come and inspect their relief work, offering to have a carriage take me around. Roosevelt comesMulberry Streets Golden Age
- Worse yet, their presence frequently meant indiscriminate artillery bombardments against innocent villages suspected of harboring the Vietcong.
- The apprehensions of the Health Department are valid if we go for indiscriminate digging in places where there are chances for water stagnation.