blindfoldly

English

Etymology

blindfold +‎ -ly

Adverb

blindfoldly (comparative more blindfoldly, superlative most blindfoldly)

  1. (archaic or India) Synonym of blindfold (“blindly; without due thought or caution”)
    • 1866, The Farmer's Magazine (page 333)
      […] and can the English farmer see no further before him than thus to tread blindfoldly in the footsteps of the brute creation?
    • 1893, Sir George Watt, A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India (page 154)
      [T]o the Native dyers of India is no less due the merit of having inherited and improved, from their ancestors, it may be blindfoldly, all and perhaps more than has been as yet discovered by their more fortunate brethren of the West, through scientific methods.
    • 1994, The Indian Economic Journal (page 110)
      […] yet most of the third world countries have invariably inclined to blindfoldly import the ill suited and inappropriate western technologies […]
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