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[ adverb ] without seeing or looking
Examples "he felt around his desk blindly" Used in print (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)But he groped blindly . (Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)He at_once cancels the celebrations and , buckling on his scimitar , stumbles blindly from the house , where he is hit and killed by a passing oxcart . |
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[ adverb ] without preparation or reflection; without a rational basis
Examples "they bought the car blindly" "he picked a wife blindly" Used in print (William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)But is that not like going_to a chemistry_laboratory and blindly pouring_out liquids and powders from an array of bottles and then , after stirring , expecting a new wonder_drug inevitably to result ? |
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