MEANING
Not making careful or relevant distinctions when choosing, applying, or treating things.
Use it for
criticizing blanket application of a rule; identifying selection that ignores relevant differences; questioning broad conclusions that treat unlike cases alikeCriticizes failure to make relevant distinctions, rather than merely describing broad coverage or chance selection. Academic functions: Analysis / Interpretation, Research / Methodology, Argumentation.
Words that belong together
- indiscriminate use
- indiscriminate application
- indiscriminate selection
On the page
The critique challenges the indiscriminate application of a model to institutions with different legal responsibilities.
Indiscriminate selection from an archive is not equivalent to a documented random sampling procedure.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- indiscriminate
Usage notes
Adjective: indiscriminate use, indiscriminate selection. More indiscriminate is possible; no routine -er/-est forms. Not synonymous with statistically random. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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