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Every which way   /ˈɛvəri wɪtʃ weɪ/   Listen
Every which way

adverb
1.
In a random manner.  Synonyms: arbitrarily, at random, haphazardly, indiscriminately, randomly, willy-nilly.  "Bullets were fired into the crowd at random"
2.
Haphazardly.  Synonym: helter-skelter.






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"Every which way" Quotes from Famous Books



... dire confusion among the Crows, and some of them ran every which way and lost the crowd entirely as History and Tug ...
— The Dozen from Lakerim • Rupert Hughes

... comes far nearer than Mr. Wilson to having a right to speak the purposes of the American people at this moment. Mr. Wilson and his Fourteen Points and his four supplementary points and his five complementary points and all his utterances every which way have ceased to have any shadow of right to be accepted as expressive of the will of ...
— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty

... unsafe to live in," Gloria asked at supper, "when they lean every which way? Oughtn't there to be a law to tear them down?" Gloria was too intent on her own musings to intercept the swift glance ...
— Gloria and Treeless Street • Annie Hamilton Donnell

... seems to run west out of the lake, and then turn south. Now, she's running north and south right here, isn't she?" The explorer, glancing at his compass, nodded. "Then instead of keeping close to the stream, why couldn't we strike off northeast and head straight for the lake? The river only leads us every which way." ...
— The Rogue Elephant - The Boys' Big Game Series • Elliott Whitney

... Lone Little Path came the Possum family, and a funny looking sight they were. Unc' Billy was whitish-gray, his face whiter than the rest of him. He looked as if he had just gotten out of bed and forgotten to brush his hair; it pointed every which way. His legs were dark, his feet black and his toes white. His ears were without any hair at all, and were black for the lower half, the rest being white. He had a long whitish tail without any hair on it. Altogether, with his sharp face and naked tail, he looked a great deal as though he might ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess

... current, where the seas were yet mountainous but regular, we went along with a wide, swinging motion and fared well enough; but on nearing the edge of the stream a confused sea was met with, standing all on end, in every which way, beyond a sailor's comprehension. The motion of the Liberdade was then far from poetical or pleasant. The wind, in the meantime, had chopped round to the nor'east, dead ahead; being thus against the current, a higher and more ...
— Voyage of the Liberdade • Captain Joshua Slocum



Words linked to "Every which way" :   at random, willy-nilly, haphazardly, helter-skelter, arbitrarily, indiscriminately



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