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unreflecting

American  
[uhn-ri-flek-ting] / ˌʌn rɪˈflɛk tɪŋ /

adjective

  1. not reflecting; unthinking.

    an unreflecting, self-satisfied man.


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Etymology

Origin of unreflecting

First recorded in 1655–65; un- 1 + reflect + -ing 2


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Your eyes … are cool-coloured, sort of air force blue-grey, and strangely unreflecting.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2015

Very few people take up one or the other of these extremes, although the latter comes closer to a common, natural, and unreflecting point of view.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2015

I have seen her, sometimes, when she thinks I’m not looking: her face goes still, remote, unreflecting.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

She denied her own complicity and said that the unrest arose from the unreflecting love of the people, who suffered with her, because of her son.

From The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java by Louis Couperus

There was here the danger of being drugged by the miasma that rose from this unreflecting surface.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

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