arbitrarily
IPA: ˈɑrbɪtrɛrʌɫi
adverb
- In an arbitrary manner.
- To an arbitrary degree.
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Examples of "arbitrarily" in Sentences
- Most of the cast die heroically, stupidly, or arbitrarily, which is realistic enough.
- The only vote they should have is on whether they want their prison term arbitrarily extended or not.
- But in the law of war, according to the courts, killing arbitrarily is okay; capturing arbitrarily is not.
- They seem to feel that a symbol is some mysterious thing put in arbitrarily by the writer to frighten the common reader — sort of a literary Masonic grip that is only for the initiated …
- It is worth remembering that mine is still the only "official" Parliamentary game a title arbitrarily bestowed on myself, as I ran a Parliamentary Fantasy League last season and of course ran a Parliamentary World Cup so please do ensure you register using the code here before playing.
- Associated Press Tony Kushner The more carefully I scrutinized the press release announcing that Mr. Kushner was to be the first recipient of "the Mimi," to use the nickname arbitrarily bestowed upon the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award by its creators, the more puzzled I became.
- I always suspected that if Poetry is inherently a matter of interconnections (what we Pinoys also call pakikiramdam and what I lately have been calling algebraic as a result of three months of tutoring a 13-year-old boy in four years worth of math), such a book can hold together -- also recall Gertrude Stein's observation (I paraphrase) about how a word arbitrarily placed next to another word will rub together for some unexpected frisson if not generate some meaning.
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