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willy-nilly

adjective as in disordered

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These are the people who, despairing of finding their way out honestly, simply smash and bash their way through the corn willy-nilly.

McCullough told police: "When I was hitting her it was like someone badly playing the xylophone, it was willy-nilly."

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“I’m not saying jump ship willy-nilly, but you do want to make sure that you’re getting the competitive rate,” he said.

“There is little data to support these uses, and it’s a really risky proposition to be using this drug willy-nilly to treat these sorts of conditions,” said Alexander, the John Hopkins professor.

They worried that the Supreme Court—which had recently ruled in favor of affirmative action and a right to abortion—was untethered and was willy-nilly making rulings that aligned with their politics—that liberals were “legislating from the bench.”

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