Definitions
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- adv. In an indifferent manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adv. In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an indifferent, manner; without difference or distinction; impartially; without concern or preference.
- Not particularly well, but still not ill; tolerably; passably.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adv. with indifference; in an indifferent manner
Etymologies
Examples
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II. ii.19 (340,5) he wav'd indifferently] That is, _he would wave indifferently_.
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I have met with, and treated, as my book shows, fifty-seven cases of this kind of vision, which I term indifferently
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I have met with, and treated, as my book shows, fifty-seven cases of this kind of vision, which I term indifferently "sublimated,"
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He uttered the word indifferently, and as though his mind were on something else.
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Children usually prefer the game called indifferently Togantog and Saddikiya.
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Some writers have considered that Mechtilde von Hackeborn and Mechtilde von Wippra were two distinct persons, but, as the Barons of Hackeborn were also Lords of Wippra, it was customary for members of that family to take their name indifferently from either, or both of these estates.
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As if it were so much water -- in short, indifferently -- P. Sybarite tossed it off.
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The local washerwoman replied that it was perhaps a very good plan of Miss or Mrs. Fawley's (as they called her indifferently) to have him with her -- "to kip ee company in your loneliness, fetch water, shet the winder-shet-ters o nights, and help in the bit o 'baking."
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The local washerwoman replied that it was perhaps a very good plan of Miss or Mrs. Fawley's (as they called her indifferently) to have him with her -- "to kip 'ee company in your loneliness, fetch water, shet the winder-shet-ters o' nights, and help in the bit o 'baking."
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Indeed one of the best criticks of our age [1] suggests to me, that 'the word indifferently being used in the sense of without concern' and being also very unpoetical, renders it improbable that they should have been his composition.
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