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willy-nilly
adjective as in disordered
Strongest match
Weak matches
Example Sentences
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."
“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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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