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indeliberate

American  
[in-di-lib-er-it] / ˌɪn dɪˈlɪb ər ɪt /

adjective

  1. done without care; special planning or deliberation; unintentional.


Other Word Forms

  • indeliberately adverb
  • indeliberateness noun
  • indeliberation noun

Etymology

Origin of indeliberate

First recorded in 1610–20; in- 3 + deliberate

Example Sentences

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These types of human expression are easy to control, and the internal effect of each is soon felt where there is deliberate, or indeliberate, perseverance in its maintenance.

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It is particularly the latter portion of Ramon y Cajal's theory, with regard to attention and the more or less voluntary though unconscious and usually indeliberate control of blood supply to various portions of the brain, that is of special interest.

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Some of the phases of indeliberate psychotherapy, however, are even more interesting than this chapter of the history of genuine and deliberate psycho-therapeutics.

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Doubt, Sin of, 840 sqq.; methodical and real, 840-841; involuntary, indeliberate, unwelcome and ignorant, 842; negative, 844; positive, 845; passing and permanent, 846.

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Conditional evil desires, if they are indeliberate and express rather the propensity of nature than the considered will of him who makes them, are not formally sinful.

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