irreflective

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And from this day I was an altered creature, never again relapsing into the careless, irreflective mind of childhood.

From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas

It is the same story, from the first chapter to the last, in education, poor law, public works, relief Acts, even in coercion Acts—lazy, uninformed, and irreflective good intention.

From Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question by Godkin, Edwin Lawrence

But how could we think it, if the only possible life was that one which we intend to think, and not the one with which we think this irreflective life?

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni

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 Greene, John Richard

But this he can bear, because his noble mind recognises its own greatness; he regards his jeering brethren in the same light as the philosophic writer beholds 'the vapid and irreflective reader.'

From Some Private Views by Payn, James