Dictionary entry

Willy-nilly

Pronunciation: /wɪlɪˈnɪli/

Pronunciation

/wɪlɪˈnɪli/

Myanmar Meaning

ကြိုက်သည်ဖြစ်စေ၊ မကြိုက်သည်ဖြစ်စေ.

Definition

willy-nilly /wÇli 'nÇli/ adv စိတ္ပါပါ မပါပါ။ ႀကိဳက္ႀကိဳက္ မႀကိဳက္ႀကိဳက္။ He was forced willy-nilly to sit through a lot of boring speeches.

Examples

  1. ‘For their part
  2. the interns had no special passion for aquatic life. They had been recruited at the last minute by a government summer job program and assigned
  3. willy-nilly
  4. to the aquarium.’
  5. ‘Caught up
  6. in lawlessness of a sort were also numberless worthy members of the public
  7. who faced a stupefying barrage of emergency laws passed on sumptuary
  8. economic and security grounds.’
  9. ‘Now
  10. 11 years later
  11. he was the Chief Commissioner of the hill State of Manipur
  12. and had willy-nilly to depute election officers and to supervise the polling and the counting.’
  13. ‘But willy-nilly one must
  14. come hail or thunderstorm.’
  15. ‘There are some pieces of music that must be parceled out over a lifetime
  16. and you don't want to spend their impact willy-nilly.’
  17. ‘If they're used willy-nilly
  18. they will merely increase public anxiety.’
  19. ‘Large crowds gather and people just wander across the road willy-nilly.’
  20. ‘‘Businesses are not free to spend their money willy-nilly
  21. ’ she said.’
  22. ‘If there's a suspicion they are just doing it for money and handing out tickets willy-nilly irrespective of the traffic implications
  23. then it's not going to go down well with motorists.’
  24. ‘Second question: how many of you spend money willy-nilly on cosmetics
  25. jewelry
  26. clothes
  27. fast food
  28. movies
  29. and weekend beer?’
  30. ‘I can't wait for the day when my husband and I no longer have a mortgage and that prospect alone provides us with the motivation not to spend money willy-nilly on new cars and expensive holidays.’
  31. ‘It was a wait and see situation; the Government would not throw money around willy-nilly
  32. so it just waited to see whether that organism could live in New Zealand.’
  33. ‘The Minister himself has given up now on going through the review process; he is just making arbitrary closure decisions around the country
  34. whether they are good schools or bad schools.’
  35. ‘We also couldn't go firing darts willy-nilly as they are very powerful.’
  36. ‘Hopefully the commanders here in the field will pause to consider the dire consequences of backlash before rushing in willy-nilly to crush those ‘insurgents’.’
  37. ‘If you rummage around in the history of the popular song
  38. you'll find innumerable instances of lyrics and musical passages appropriated and misappropriated willy-nilly.’
  39. ‘It was made perfectly clear that money will not be tipped onto a table for the town to spend willy-nilly on pet projects.’
  40. ‘Can these buffoons really wander willy-nilly around the congested airspace above Britain with no regard for the professional pilots who rely on every other pilot to be up-to-speed on what is happening in their area?’
  41. ‘The perception is that they are pretty safe drugs and are handed out willy-nilly
  42. with a lot of pressure from some patients.’
  43. ‘At the same time
  44. Americans also said they will not be spending willy-nilly.’