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un·dis·crim·i·nat·ing

(ŭn′dĭ-skrĭm′ə-nā′tĭng)

adj.

1. Lacking sensitivity, taste, or judgment.

2. Indiscriminate.

undiscriminating

(ˌʌndɪsˈkrɪmɪˌneɪtɪŋ)

adj

lacking discernment in matters of taste

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Adj.

undiscriminating - not discriminating

indiscriminating

indiscriminate - not marked by fine distinctions; "indiscriminate reading habits"; "an indiscriminate mixture of colors and styles"

discriminating - showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste; "the discriminating eye of the connoisseur"

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undiscriminating

[ˈʌndɪsˈkrɪmɪneɪtɪŋ] ADJ → sin discernimiento

undiscriminating

[ˌʌndɪsˈkrɪmɪˌneɪtɪŋ] adj (choice) → indiscriminato/a; (person) → che non fa discriminazioni; (taste) → non selettivo/a

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The measure must be proportional to the situation that has determined it, to be applied undiscriminatingly and without bringing any prejudice to the existence of law or liberty".

A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE INCAPACITIES OF EXERCISE AND THEIR SANCTIONS

So when Gowan undiscriminatingly applies the same familiarities (the affectionate, non-meaning use of "old," the bonhomie of "fellow") to corrupt individuals--"I am happy to tell you I find the most worthless of men to be the dearest old fellow too"--Dickens has espoused the Ciceronian ideal of friendship to expose what he would conceive as being a reductive Rochefoucaultian (and Thackeravian) travesty, driving the point home when Gowan embraces Rigaud, the double-dyed villain of the plot, as a friend of sorts.

Eighteenth-century allusions in Henry Esmond

that " A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.