willy-nilly

/wil-ee-nil-ee/US // ˈwɪl iˈnɪl i //UK // (ˌwɪlɪˈnɪlɪ) //

无奈地,无奈,无休止地,无奈之下

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb

1
- : in a disorganized or unplanned manner; sloppily.
- : whether one wishes to or not; willingly or unwillingly: He'll have to do it willy-nilly.

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : shilly-shallying; vacillating.
- : disorganized, unplanned; sloppy: willy-nilly work.

adj.disordered

Synonyms

These crafters of personal brands are the new Brooklyn Willy Lomans with only themselves to sell.
The film, silent and seven minutes in length, featured cabaret star Louise Willy performing a sultry striptease.
At the climax of the play, Willy Loman ruefully tells his two sons that he was fired that day from his job.
As Steve Martin said on Twitter, “If you missed him as Willy Loman, you missed a Willy Loman for all time.”
But it was his Willy Loman that theater audiences of recent years will remember.
You will remember that when you came to our assistance outside Meerut she was determined to take us, willy-nilly, to Delhi.
Little Willy Gay looked at that picture very carefully, and soon made practical use of it, as I will tell you.
So much, at least, we had gained—we were no longer being carried willy-nilly out of our way.
When Willy was two years old, he lived in a red farmhouse with a yard in front of it.
One bright morning Willy's mamma put on his straw hat, and sent him out in the yard to play.