willy-nilly
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Willy-nilly development has jammed clumps of townhouses on tiny lots, critics say, ruining blocks and worsening congestion, even if that development is perfectly legal.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2017
Willy-nilly, a theme has emerged from all this.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2010
Willy-nilly every man, no matter how graceless his exterior, plays the polite host to bevies of little animals who pasture on his interior reaches.
From Time Magazine Archive
Willy-nilly, this training ground for the colonial elite made him a child of Empire, giving him "a wonderful, very tough, English public-school education -- ceaseless work."
From Time Magazine Archive
Willy-Nilly, birdy sings, For he's running over With the music that he flings To his sweet bird-lover;-- Willy-nilly, baby laughs, Gay and glad and gleeful; Brimming over high with health, She is always playful.
From Mother Truth's Melodies Common Sense For Children by Miller, Mrs. E. P.
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