indifferently
advEtymology From indifferent + -ly.
› In an indifferent manner.
1
Tolerably; passably.
2
Without distinction; impartially, objectively.
- Uiew wel my Camp, and ſpeake indifferently, Doo not my captaines and my ſouldiers looke As if they meant to conquer Affrica?c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
- And make diuiſion equally, Of each mans goods indifferently, […]1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I:
3
Without great care; without sufficient attention or thought.
- They might have been lifted bodily out of an indifferently written American crime novel.1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 3, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 222:
- For the first ten years of nationalisation a further note of overall gloom was added by the depressing policy of unimaginative Regional colour schemes, indifferently applied.1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 251: