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arbitrarily

/ahr-bi-trair-uh-lee/US // ˌɑr bɪˈtrɛər ə li //

随便,随意,随意地,专横地

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : based on the judgment or will of an individual: The Fourth Amendment protects my right to not be arbitrarily searched.
    • : without an apparent reason or pattern; randomly; capriciously: There is no need to stop living life to its fullest simply because we have reached some arbitrarily set age for what broader society calls “retirement.”

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Examples

  • It will lift the coastal height limit that’s been set since 1972, arbitrarily imposed on the Midway neighborhood.

  • Sharma said Google acted “arbitrarily” in the matter while Google said its policies are “consistently” enforced.

  • We are urging the Saudi authorities to immediately release all arbitrarily detained migrants, and significantly improve detention conditions before more lives are lost.

  • It’s what drives economic anxiety for patients who have chronic illnesses and have to reload on their supply every month without knowing if a company may arbitrarily raise its prices.

  • Bad luck seems terrifyingly unreasonable, arbitrarily striking anywhere, out of the blue.

  • Many of the others were arbitrarily sentenced under similar charges of “acting” or “conspiring” against national security.

  • In reality, the Iraqi borders had been arbitrarily drawn and disregarded 2,000 years of tribal, sectarian, and nomadic occupation.

  • In this position, they would arbitrarily hit us on the back and head.

  • If the IRS can target and discriminate against one group of Americans, it can arbitrarily do it to anyone.

  • Yet the current debate is arbitrarily restricted to the chief public component of the American retirement system, Social Security.

  • To determine them by a type would be as sure a way of missing the Kind, as if we were to select a set of characters arbitrarily.

  • I could not drop these words arbitrarily, and yet, if they were excluded, everything would become clear.

  • Okie arbitrarily judged the gold piece to be worth ten dollars.

  • He arbitrarily rejected all that had been done before his time.

  • The mob at last attacked the Bastille, a formidable fortress where state-prisoners were arbitrarily confined.