irreflective

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

From Pragmatism by James, William

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

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

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 these fields we shall not find that we are dealing with the spasmodic and irreflective heroisms which illuminate a barbarous age.

From Medieval Europe by Davis, H. W. C. (Henry William Carless)