Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Lack of discrimination or judgment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being indiscriminate; want of discrimination or distinction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lack of discrimination or distinction; impartiality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Lack of discrimination or distinction; impartiality.
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Examples
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It is strange that this exaggerated weight attributed to Islam, stands in sharp contradiction with their idealistic European notion of 'indiscrimination'.
Gates of Vienna 2009
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But this definitely is a very tragic and very crucial day, in which the world got a very stark reminder of the horror, indiscrimination, and globality of terrorism, the nearly 20 babies and children who were killed in Israel.
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They're afraid they'll be sued if they dont .. for indiscrimination.
terrarose Diary Entry terrarose 2002
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I'll nail them for indiscrimination against my religion.
terrarose Diary Entry terrarose 2001
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This enthusiasm is not necessarily all bad: the new must be tested, applied with mild indiscrimination; sustain a shakedown cruise, be pushed to the limits that inform what it can and cannot accomplish, where it fits and where it rattles.
The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994
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This enthusiasm is not necessarily all bad: the new must be tested, applied with mild indiscrimination; sustain a shakedown cruise, be pushed to the limits that inform what it can and cannot accomplish, where it fits and where it rattles.
The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994
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To push either friendship or human association further, to claim that one must open his life completely, or not at all, is not bending life to conform to a moral law; but it is twisting the moral basis of discrimination into indiscrimination, into immorality.
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His first glimpse of her, on Class Day, in a white gown and a hat that to his manly indiscrimination looked as guileless as a sheaf of poppies nodding above the pale-yellow hair that had the sheen of corn-silk, had been a vision that stirred in him heroic promptings.
Judith of the Plains Marie Manning
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We do not envy most of them their eternal martyrdom in marble, their pillory of indiscrimination.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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The general aim and result may be very salutary, but the application is too sweeping, and brings suffering to many unfortunate individuals, or to the community as a whole, by its indiscrimination.
Problems of Conduct Durant Drake
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