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When he became well he had the impulse to document himself, to start a movement for the amelioration of the then unintelligently managed insane asylums.

From Time Magazine Archive

Measuredly, clearly, but unintelligently, Allaraine pronounced the words that were to him a mystery; and Istar listened, wondering, a dim foreboding at her heart.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton

As regards his general services to the great life of his national state115, they are unintelligently and perhaps grudgingly rendered.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Ah!" and "Um," at George Edmund and patted the boy's shoulder kindly and repeated words unintelligently, such as, "Red Indians, eh!" or "Came out of the water backwards!

From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Truly, of all suggested modes of marking respect for creative power, that of assuming it to have worked unintelligently is the most original.

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas