Meanings
comparative more undistinguishing · superlative most undistinguishing
- Failing to distinguish; undiscerning.
It is a simplicity wrought out by knowledge and skill; not the rough product of an undistinguishing, sweeping general principle.
1923, Daniel Webster, The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster2 more examples
Nor can we avoid ascribing the undistinguishing and extravagant applause, that has been bestowed upon the style, to the same source of fashion, the rank, the fortune, the connexions of the writer.
1783, William Godwin, Four Early PamphletsWhat had she to say that would not humble herself and pain her family; that would not increase her own grief by the confession of it, extend an useless resentment, and perhaps involve the innocent with the guilty in undistinguishing ill-will?
1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page 276
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