Citations:willy-nilly
English citations of willy-nilly
- Whether desired or not; without regard for the consequences or the wishes of those affected; whether willingly or unwillingly.
- 1948 August, Aldous Huxley, “The Script”, in Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 154:
- And, while he sleeps, the indwelling Compassion preserves him, willy nilly, from the suicide which, in his waking hours, he has tried so frantically hard to commit.