arbitrarily
/ɑːbɪˈtrɛrəli
/ /ˈɑːbɪtrəli /adverb
1On the basis of random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system: recurrent infection is arbitrarily defined as three or more infections a year
2Without restraint in the use of authority; autocratically: everyone has the right not to be arbitrarily detained...
- The rules of due process were designed to ensure that the government cannot arbitrarily imprison innocent people.
- Regulations issued by the Imperial Army spelled out procedures intended to ensure that prisoners weren't punished arbitrarily.
- In particular, no one may be arbitrarily arrested and detained.
- play (or act) the fool
- play (or keep) one's cards close to one's chest (or vest)
- play (or play it) safe (or for safety)
- play (or raise) hob
- play (or sing or practise) scales
- play (or use) the —— card
- play out
- play-party
- playpen
- play-play
- play politics
- play possum
- play-pretty
- playroom
- playscape
- playscheme
- playschool
- play-season
- play second fiddle
- play-seer
- playset
- playshop
- play silly buggers
- playsome
- play someone along