willy-nilly
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌwɪliˈnɪli/
willy-nilly
- Whether desired or not.
- 1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, Chatto & Windus, page 36:
- The outer world is what we wake up to every morning of our lives, is the place where, willy-nilly, we must try to make our living.
- 1894, Thomas Hardy, Hearts Insurgent, in Harper's Magazine, Volume XC, Number 536, page 195:
- He says he shall come for me willy-nilly, and father and mother say I must have him!
- 1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, Chatto & Windus, page 36:
- Without regard for consequences or the will of those affected.
- So people chasing money churn out novels willy-nilly.
- Seemingly at random, haphazardly
- The novel Alice in Wonderland describes a place where random things happen all willy-nilly.
- nolens volens
- French: bon gré mal gré
- German: wohl oder übel; ob man will oder nicht; volens nolens
- Portuguese: querendo ou não, queira ou não queira, obrigatoriamente
- Russian: во́лей-нево́лей
- Spanish: quiera o no quiera, quiérase o no, guste o no guste
- German: wohl oder übel; ob man will oder nicht; nolens volens
- Russian: тя́п-ля́п
- Spanish: sea como sea
- German: willkürlich , einfach so, wahllos, scheinbar zufällig
- Italian: a casaccio
- Portuguese: de qualquer maneira, de qualquer jeito
- Russian: тя́п-ля́п
- Spanish: de cualquier manera, a tontas y a locas
willy-nilly
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