irreflective
Example Sentences
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And from this day I was an altered creature, never again relapsing into the careless, irreflective mind of childhood.
From Autobiographical Sketches by Thomas De Quincey
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
But this he can bear, because his noble mind recognises its own greatness; he regards his jeering brethren in the same light as the philosophic writer beholds 'the vapid and irreflective reader.'
From Some Private Views by James Payn
His right figure was that of life in irreflective joy and at the highest thinkable level of prepared security and unconscious insolence.
From The Finer Grain by Henry James
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 Charlotte Mary Yonge
