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/ɪndˈɪfɹəntli/
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ADVERB
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with indifference; in an indifferent manner
she shrugged indifferently
How To Use indifferently In A Sentence
- The Pythagorean doctrine that one soul can not only transmigrate from man to man, from man to beast, but also indifferently to plants, serves as the basis for the soul's secular progress.
- she shrugged indifferently
- If you are wondering whether the combined talent on display can improve the pedestrian material, the answer is indifferently negative.
- He looked indifferently upon subjects that did not interest him.
- All further ideas about it, such as the oneness or manyness of the spiritual substance on which it is based, are therefore void of intelligible meaning; and propositions touching such ideas may be indifferently affirmed or denied. The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Similarly, among protists, a radiolarian may capture and ingest, more or less indifferently, a bacterium, an autotrophic flagellate, a herbivorous oligotrich ciliate, or another radiolarian (Fig 2E). Marine microbes
- It is so common to observe on the same plant, flowers indifferently tetramerous, pentamerous, &c., that I need not give examples; but as numerical variations are comparatively rare when the parts are few, I may mention that, according to De Candolle, the flowers of Papaver bracteatum offer either two sepals with four petals (which is the common type with poppies), or three sepals with six petals. VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
- Following our gazes, he looked at it too and shrugged indifferently.
- The women stare indifferently as catcalls and whistling burst loudly from the dark interior of a taxi.
- Ordinarily, comets are conspicuous at their perihelia, as being their shortest distances from the sun, which is the focus of their orbit, and inasmuch as a parabola is but an ellipse with its axis indefinitely produced, for some short portion of its pathway the orbit may be indifferently considered either one or the other; but in this particular case the professor was right in adopting the supposition of its being parabolic. Off on a Comet