unthinking

[ UK /ʌnθˈɪŋkɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ənˈθɪŋkɪŋ/ ]

ADJECTIVE

mentally sluggish
not exhibiting or characterized by careful thought
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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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?

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