irreflective
Example Sentences
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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
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 Passage in No. 7 of the Apology where he describes the State of the World as wholly irreflective of its Creator unless you turn—to Popery—is very grand.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by Wright, William Aldis
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
Was it a relief to that irreflective nature to believe the die irrevocably cast, and the responsibility of decision over?
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
