Synonyms for willy-nilly
ˈwɪl iˈnɪl iwil·ly-nil·ly

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1. willy-nillyadverb

   Synonyms:
   nolens volens

2. willy-nillyadverb

   Whether desired or not.

   Synonyms:
   nolens volens

3. willy-nillyadverb

   Without regard for consequences or the will of those affected.

   So people chasing money churn out novels willy-nilly.

   Synonyms:
   nolens volens

4. willy-nillyadverb

   Seemingly at random, haphazardly

   The novel Alice in Wonderland describes a place where random things happen all willy-nilly.

   Synonyms:
   nolens volens

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1. randomly, indiscriminately, haphazardly, willy-nilly, arbitrarily, at random, every which wayadverb

   in a random manner

   "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random"

   Synonyms:
   every which way, randomly, promiscuously, indiscriminately, arbitrarily, at random, haphazardly, haphazard, helter-skelter

2. willy-nillyadverb

   without having a choice

   Synonyms:
   at random, indiscriminately, arbitrarily, randomly, haphazardly, every which way

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1. willy-nillyadverb

   Synonyms:
   willingly or unwillingly

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1. List of paraphrases for "willy-nilly":

   randomly

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How to use willy-nilly in a sentence?

1. Shawn Coburn:

   I don't like to pick on other farmers, even if it wasn't a drought year, the only difference is I don't have a pipe in the Delta I can suck willy-nilly whenever I want.

2. Mark Anderson:

   I think the important part to realize that we actually were able to pull off a successful election with checks and balances, we just didn't do willy-nilly e-ballots, they have security that was on them. We have documentation that's on them, we have all the processes to backup and protect why we did what we did.

3. Jason Robnett:

   People need to stop reacting, just stay still, if everybody just sits still until the readiness comes up to the right level, that's better than running willy-nilly in every direction.

4. Morna McDermott:

   We're not doing this willy-nilly because we're a bunch of disgruntled soccer moms, this policy is harmful to our society, to our schools, to our teachers and to our children.

5. Andy Purdy:

   It doesn't allow the Chinese government to willy nilly put backdoors in products.