irreflective
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I address you as a true philosopher of nature, foreseeing the perpetual misery your irreflective character and total absence of moral discernment are preparing for' &c.
From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
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 William Aldis Wright
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 P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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 Giovanni Gentile
“Far behind Scott in the power of instinctive, irreflective, spontaneous creation of character, Stevenson tells his story with more art and with a firmer grip on his reader.”
From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
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