INDIFFERENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indifferently mean? 

• INDIFFERENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb INDIFFERENTLY has 1 sense:

1. with indifference; in an indifferent manner

  Familiarity information: INDIFFERENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIFFERENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With indifference; in an indifferent manner

Context example:

she shrugged indifferently

Pertainym:

indifferent (marked by a lack of interest)

 Context examples 

"I have not considered the subject," said he indifferently, looking straight before him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was late in the afternoon, when Mr. Utterson found his way to Dr. Jekyll’s door, where he was at once admitted by Poole, and carried down by the kitchen offices and across a yard which had once been a garden, to the building which was indifferently known as the laboratory or dissecting rooms.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Six hundred beds of the common measure were brought in carriages, and worked up in my house; a hundred and fifty of their beds, sewn together, made up the breadth and length; and these were four double: which, however, kept me but very indifferently from the hardness of the floor, that was of smooth stone.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The rest of the half-year is a jumble in my recollection of the daily strife and struggle of our lives; of the waning summer and the changing season; of the frosty mornings when we were rung out of bed, and the cold, cold smell of the dark nights when we were rung into bed again; of the evening schoolroom dimly lighted and indifferently warmed, and the morning schoolroom which was nothing but a great shivering-machine; of the alternation of boiled beef with roast beef, and boiled mutton with roast mutton; of clods of bread-and-butter, dog's-eared lesson-books, cracked slates, tear-blotted copy-books, canings, rulerings, hair-cuttings, rainy Sundays, suet-puddings, and a dirty atmosphere of ink, surrounding all.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)