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
In answering these questions the pragmatists are more analytic and painstaking, the intellectualists more offhand and irreflective.
From Pragmatism by James, William
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
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
Save by accident, out-of-school experience is left in its crude and comparatively irreflective state.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John
