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discriminatively

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With discrimination or distinction.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb With discrimination or distinction.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb With discrimination or distinction.

Etymologies

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discriminative +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • But consumers are buying the sweets less often and more discriminatively as household incomes contract with the U.S. recession and world economic crisis.

    Premium Chocolate Holds Steady in Tough Economy 2009

  • I agreed with the usual arguments against it: it hasn't been proven a deterrent; it is used discriminatively against the poor and minority group members; more than a few innocent parties have been unjustly condemned and executed; and contrary to what its proponents would have you believe, most methods of execution are neither painless nor humane.

    The Shape of Dread Muller, Marcia 1989

  • You understand now that your growth should be on a dual basis; that you have two different men to develop, not just one; and that they must be handled _discriminatively_, but _together_.

    Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

  • Should your prospect merely nod on your entrance, note discriminatively the movement he makes.

    Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

  • Then, when you interview him, _restrict_ your presentation of your case to these discriminatively selected strong points of your particular capability.

    Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

  • He succeeded in getting his experimental prune trees to develop discriminatively, almost as if they had the power of choice,

    Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

  • Another man, with a mind discriminatively and restrictively trained to recognize differences, would learn in five minutes to distinguish the individualities of the twins.

    Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

  • He restricted his experimental prune trees to the development of specific delicious qualities, by giving them no food except that _discriminatively_ selected for his purpose.

    Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

  • But in order to be a certainly successful salesman of yourself you should _observe more intelligently and discriminatively_ hereafter.

    Certain Success Norval A. Hawkins

  • It is a disgusting and invariably hypocritical situation in which the law is applied discriminatively against only one class of people who have been arbitrarily singled out for persecution.

    LewRockwell.com 2009

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