willy-nilly

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I don't want services I use stripping this stuff willy-nilly.

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in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random"

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adverb

in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random"

adverb

without having a choice

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for willy-nilly.

adverb

in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random"

adverb

without having a choice

Example sentences

I don't want services I use stripping this stuff willy-nilly.

This sort of activity is a serious problem, but you can't just file charges all willy-nilly.

The resources used to build up an institution can't be deployed willy-nilly.

But it's the law in California that you can't cut off public access to the coastline or alter it willy-nilly, and has been for a long time.

This isn't the first time the FBI busted into a data center all willy-nilly knocking innocent peoples hardware offline.

But please don't just sprinkle in the there's-no-freedom-in-China FUD willy-nilly that we've all heard enough of already.

While I'm sure you mean well, and it's not like HN is full of trolls who want to trick you, you shouldn't just be asking for PayPal accounts that you'll willy-nilly send money to.

Or are they randomly coming in, mid-iteration, and changing things around willy-nilly?5.

If your intention was instead to build a program with a UI for playing around with the pieces, moving discs around willy-nilly and perhaps adding more rods, then Rod and Disc classes present themselves quite naturally.

If by what has now been revealed you mean the allegation that Google is allowing the NSA unfettered access to user data or that were handing over data willy-nilly to the government, again, thats just not true.

Unfortunately we can't scale the threshold voltage willy-nilly like in the past because leakage power increases for lower threshold voltages and is now a significant contributor to total power.

I shredded all my mail, I haven't given any real information about me on any web site since 1997, never gave out any information about me willy-nilly including applying for too many credit cards, and I never fall for phishing attacks.