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

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

Aversions and antipathies for others usually are either indeliberate, or have to do with what are real or fancied defects in others.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

What is beyond all question is, that there are in beasts a prodigious number of motions entirely indeliberate, and which yet are performed according to the nicest rules of mechanics. 

From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry

Evolution prior to the advent of man was an unconscious and therefore indeliberate adaptation of function to environment through the survival of the fittest and the corresponding destruction of the less fit.

From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Kelly, Edmond

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

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome