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UK
/ʌnθˈɪŋkɪŋ/
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[ US /ənˈθɪŋkɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ənˈθɪŋkɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- mentally sluggish
- not exhibiting or characterized by careful thought
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without care or thought for others
the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'
ADVERB
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in a thoughtless manner
he stared thoughtlessly at the picture
How To Use unthinking In A Sentence
- Elected officials, he lectured, should not speak unthinkingly, but rather, when doubts exist, keep silent.
- The idea grew from a remark made unthinkingly by chairman.
- Unthinking obedience to a line of bullshit because your pecker is so small you have to make up for it in other ways. Think Progress » EXCLUSIVE: Majority Leader Boehner’s Confidential Strategy Memo For Thursday’s Iraq Debate
- Perhaps it was Thick, doing his tasks in his methodical, unthinking way. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
- Note that progressives here are unthinkingly using the standard Republican framing of taxation issues -- a bicycle fee would "penalize" the "worthy" among us -- as well as fulminating in faux populist us vs. them terms. BlueOregon
- But it would be wrong to blame everything on the scribes, those unreflective, unthinking mouthpieces of the status quo whose job it is to anaesthetize the public. Archive 2007-10-01
- But they ignored the unthinking acceptance that Jeffries enjoyed among a far wider circle of students.
- Even automatic, unthinking actions are to a degree socially-conditioned, as Pavlov and Skinner have demonstrated.
- As an aphorist, Cullen is hard to beat and his supple and punning use of text puts the lie to the whole unthinking bad boy concept.
- And if we've become unthinkingly certain of these unpleasantries, we can be doubly certain that the combination of the two is unthinkably unpleasant, right?