irreflective

Example Sentences

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Later, when the journeys to Europe ceased, he still had shown his children all sorts of indulgence, and if he had been troubled about money-matters nothing ever disturbed their irreflective consciousness of many possessions.

From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by James, Henry

The vapid and irreflective reader may jump to the conclusion that Jimmy was a casuist, and ought to have been ashamed of himself.

From The Gem Collector by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

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 Symonds, John Addington

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

In answering these questions the pragmatists are more analytic and painstaking, the intellectualists more offhand and irreflective.

From Pragmatism by James, William