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• whether one likes it or not.

• "he would be forced to collaborate willy-nilly"

Similar: whether one likes it or not, of necessity, necessarily, one way or the other, nolens volens, like it or not, like it or lump it, perforce,

• without direction or planning; haphazardly.

• "politicians expanded spending programmes willy-nilly"

Similar: haphazardly, at random, randomly, without planning, without method,

Origin: early 17th century: later spelling of will I, nill I ‘I am willing, I am unwilling’.