irreflective
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We produced it," said Mr. Gladstone, "with a general, lazy, uninformed, and irreflective good intention of taking capital to Ireland.
From Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question by Edwin Lawrence Godkin
His right figure was that of life in irreflective joy and at the highest thinkable level of prepared security and unconscious insolence.
From The Finer Grain by Henry James
In these fields we shall not find that we are dealing with the spasmodic and irreflective heroisms which illuminate a barbarous age.
From Medieval Europe by H. W. C. (Henry William Carless) Davis
He obeys his instincts and indulges his appetites with the irreflective simplicity of an animal.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
There is a strange humour about the subtle gradations by which girlhood passes out of all this free, genial, irreflective life into the self-consciousness, the reserve, the artificiality of womanhood.
From Stray Studies from England and Italy by John Richard Greene
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