And yes, "undiscriminating" is a pejorative concept, and 'discriminating' a positive one. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
At the undiscriminating cult of Messrs. JUNG and FREUD. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20] Reference
People seem to be undiscriminating when it comes to this. From Wordnik.com. [Viewers to a Kill] Reference
Picturesque is a curiously convenient, undiscriminating epithet. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
His cellars were well stocked, and his hospitality undiscriminating. From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
He had never before revealed this thirst for undiscriminating homage. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
To lend myself to a viewpoint I find unreal and undiscriminating is one. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
(Soundbite of laughter) SAGAL: That is a very undiscriminating bacteria. From Wordnik.com. [Panel Round Two] Reference
But Bob Needham spoke from the depths of his honest and undiscriminating soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
This shows that the reception of the Laws was not altogether undiscriminating. From Wordnik.com. [Laws] Reference
Virgil couched in the undiscriminating, exaggerated terms of the previous period. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
They may aim to diminish crime, and their undiscriminating severity may foster crime. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Furbelow, who, unreasoning and undiscriminating, begged from the first person that was near. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
It's a way to develop a public persona, but it's very undiscriminating, and very 'me-minded.'. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-11] Reference
Gastronomically undiscriminating vultures are seen flying over Dork Vader as he lies in a stream. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Tocantins: Puff's Revenge] Reference
But if this process is largely undiscriminating, it also means gems like Early Fall sneak through. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews] Reference
In early years the senses are undiscriminating as far as the real worth of an impression is concerned. From Wordnik.com. [The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training] Reference
His love of Mozart, uncomprehending and undiscriminating but clearly genuine, can be felt on every page. From Wordnik.com. [Love That Mozart] Reference
Only the very young and the very undiscriminating will find this enchanting - or even mildly entertaining. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Spy Next Door] Reference
Irene, he had to face the public eye, so now he suffered day and night in dread of that undiscriminating optic. From Wordnik.com. [The White Monkey] Reference
Others have voiced concern about the passive morality implied by the monks' ethos of undiscriminating fraternity. From Wordnik.com. [The unlikeliest box-office hit: a film about doomed French monks] Reference
Without it, she would have wanted the bloodstained cake and felt no horror at all, like some undiscriminating animal. From Wordnik.com. [War for the Oaks]
I'm sure that Tales from Earthsea will entertain undiscriminating young viewers and will probably thrill anime lovers. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Tales From Earthsea] Reference
Hers was the primitive, crude, violent flux of the blood, emotional and undiscriminating, but wanting to mix and mingle. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
It had numerous friends all willing to take time off to reward its tremendous and undiscriminating capacity for affection. From Wordnik.com. [The Rolling Stones]
This indulgence of children to the full extent of their undiscriminating appetites is extreme folly and genuine unkindness. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
She laughed again, for she had seen the cooperihawks in their rounds of spring matings, which were frequent and undiscriminating. From Wordnik.com. [Widows and Orphans] Reference
Primary education of a more general and undiscriminating character, especially as to race and colour, was secured for the bulk of the. From Wordnik.com. [West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas] Reference
Some of these refuse to draw in any harness, and give themselves up to poverty and laziness, as the victims of the world's undiscriminating stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Others of a somewhat smaller size contained port, sherry, and Madeira wines, or the adulterations which pass by their names, with an undiscriminating public. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
No. With that kind of a man, an only son, and considered by the undiscriminating to be good-looking, his wife had only to take up his mother's unfinished work of spoiling him. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference
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