irreflective

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At such moments he had an irreflective courage, which prompted him to utter what he thought without regard to anything but the common civilities of life.

From The Crown of Life by Gissing, George

It cannot be denied that the transition from atrocious prosecutions to divine honors was somewhat sudden, but this is merely a further proof that Caligula was endowed with a violent, impulsive, and irreflective temperament.

From The Women of the Caesars by Ferrero, Guglielmo

Now, my life is rounded; it began with the natural irreflective happiness of childhood, it will close in the reasoned tranquillity of the mature mind. 

From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by Gissing, George

And among these defects should be counted a great ambition, a kind of harum-scarum and tumultuous activity, an irreflective impetuosity of passion, and a dangerous lack of balance and judgment.

From The Women of the Caesars by Ferrero, Guglielmo

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