unmethodically love

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  • adverb In an unmethodical fashion.

Etymologies

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unmethodical +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • However, this strategy shouldn't be relied on to unmethodically dump positions.

    Market Jitters? 6 Ways to Keep Your Cool Sarah Morgan 2011

  • The counterpane was of patchwork, full of odd little parti-colored squares and triangles; and this arm of his tattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure, no two parts of which were of one precise shade — owing I suppose to his keeping his arm at sea unmethodically in sun and shade, his shirt sleeves irregularly rolled up at various times — this same arm of his,

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • From the age of seventeen, when she had graduated from the high school -- in white ribbons and heavy new boots and tight new organdy -- to twenty-three, she had kept house and gone to gossip-parties and unmethodically read books from the town library -- Walter Scott,

    The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • For what glorious results may we not look when children from their earliest years learn that which is essential, but which now, alas! is picked up unmethodically and by chance?

    Pages from a Journal with Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872

  • You can see that the insect has cut them out hurriedly, unmethodically and on a different pattern from that of the pieces intended for the cells.

    Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature, as the common saying is; but unskillfully and unmethodically directed, it will be as it were the ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly.

    Pearls of Thought Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

  • Selection is followed methodically when the fancier tries to improve and modify a breed according to a prefixed standard of excellence; or he acts unmethodically and unconsciously, by merely trying to rear as good birds as he can, without any wish or intention to alter the breed.

    The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

  • The counterpane was of patchwork, full of odd little parti-coloured squares and triangles; and this arm of his tattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure, no two parts of which were of one precise shade -- owing I suppose to his keeping his arm at sea unmethodically in sun and shade, his shirt sleeves irregularly rolled up at various times -- this same arm of his, I say, looked for all the world like a strip of that same patchwork quilt.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • -- and so saying I was unmethodically rushing up stairs again empty-handed, when Mrs. Hussey interposed the mustard-pot and vinegar-cruet, and the entire castor of her countenance.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • The counterpane was of patchwork, full of odd little parti-colored squares and triangles; and this arm of his tattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure, no two parts of which were of one precise shade -- owing I suppose to his keeping his arm at sea unmethodically in sun and shade, his shirt sleeves irregularly rolled up at various times -- this same arm of his, I say, looked for all the world like a strip of that same patchwork quilt.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

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