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indiscriminate

Adjective

IPA /ˌɪndɪˈskrɪmɪnət/

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Done without careful choice or consideration of who or what may be affected.

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indiscriminate/ˌɪndɪˈskrɪmɪnət/

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Useful records are selected carefully
Everything is discarded without checking

Indiscriminate action fails to distinguish carefully between different people or things.

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Indiscriminate cutting left the garden with almost no flowers.
The report criticised the indiscriminate deletion of useful records.

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indiscriminate — Done without careful choice or consideration of who or what may be affected.

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Done without careful choice or consideration of who or what may be affected.

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Formed with in-, meaning not, and Latin discriminatus, from a verb meaning to distinguish.

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Indiscriminate use and indiscriminate destruction suggest a failure to make careful distinctions.

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