indiscriminating

adjective

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  1. uncritical
  2. unselective
  3. undemanding
  4. random
  5. haphazard
  6. aimless
Adjective
  • Remember to be open-minded, honest and uncritical regarding one another’s stances.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Any nonpartisan journalist or editor overseeing political coverage would balk at uncritical reporting on one side and full-on confrontation with the other.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of uncritical
Adjective
  • The kind of person, in other words, who these days tends to start a college career—typically at an unselective school—but all-too-often ends up dropping out.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2012
  • The cult film Idiocracy (2006) imagines a future in which Americans' mental capacities have been degraded by generations of pop culture, junk food, and–how to put this delicately–unselective breeding.
    Samuel Goldman, The Week, 1 Mar. 2022
Definition of unselective
Adjective
  • Its function is for undemanding use and its nostalgic output.
    Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The seemingly undemanding growth needed for EPS expansion appealed to us, especially at current valuation levels.
    Michael Bloom, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of undemanding
Adjective
  • Tenants at the time included consulting and law firms, financial advisory and investment firms, as well as the usual mélange of random, oddball businesses.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 19 Dec. 2024
  • So in addition to a random chance and bad infrastructure design causing this collision and human driver being at fault, in addition to all of that, the company then did not give all of the information to investigators after the crash.
    Michael Calore, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of random
Adjective
  • However, neither his appearance nor his attitude was haphazard.
    Bob Pisani, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Instead of relying on haphazard observations and product claims, the Outside Lab @ CU Denver set up an experiment to find out which travel mug keeps beverages warmest the longest.
    Adam Trenkamp, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of haphazard
Adjective
  • Critical possessions no longer feel aimless, as the Suns are flowing into their offense with intention.
    Shane Young, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Without his six other members filling the space around him, and in the absence of a packed schedule keeping him hurdling full speed ahead, RM (born Kim Namjoon) is loose, unguarded, often introspective and occasionally gleefully aimless.
    Mackenzie Schmidt, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of aimless
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