blindly-dealt

Updated: May 4, 2025

And, then, had he not also designed gowns for Mrs. Now, moreover, he had begun to carry an aggrieved air an air which suggested that he pitied himself, that he considered that he had been unfairly dealt with, that he was entitled to assume the attitude of an innocent, injured victim of some blindly-dealt retribution. What did that mean?

Ernest Christopher Dowson - A Comedy of Masks: A Novel