blindfoldly

comparative more blindfoldly · superlative most blindfoldly

1. IndiaarchaicSynonym of blindfold (“blindly; without due thought or caution”)

   […] and can the English farmer see no further before him than thus to tread blindfoldly in the footsteps of the brute creation?

   1866, The Farmer's Magazine, page 333

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   [T]o the Native dyers of India is no less due the merit of having inherited and improved, from their ancestors, it may be blindfoldly, all and perhaps more than has been as yet discovered by their more fortunate brethren of the West, through scientific methods.

   1893, Sir George Watt, A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India, page 154

   […] yet most of the third world countries have invariably inclined to blindfoldly import the ill suited and inappropriate western technologies […]

   1994, The Indian Economic Journal, page 110

   Synonyms: blindfold