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indiscriminating en · ADJ

Etymology

From in- + discriminating.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) indiscriminate
    • I have heard two reasons suggested for this indiscriminating application of punishment to the innocent and to the culpable. 1892, George Saintsbury, Political Pamphlets:
    • He had played the part of Lord Bountiful ungrudgingly and with indiscriminating liberality. 1842, Edgcumbe Staley, The Tragedies of the Medici:
    • Socialism, which is curiously confounded by the indiscriminating with Anarchism, is its exact opposite. 1905, Stratton D. Brooks, Composition-Rhetoric:

Deriveds

indiscriminatingly