unreflective
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of unreflective
First recorded in 1850–55; un- 1 + reflective
Example Sentences
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He stressed the number of protesters was small and unreflective of the mood of most of the crowd.
From Reuters • Sep. 12, 2022
He “recognized the courts were unreflective of the country,” Brooks said, noting that most judges were white men who worked as corporate attorneys or as prosecutors.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2022
Bruno Lage, though, has different priorities, his team’s 0 league points and goals unreflective of their aggressive intent or level of performance.
From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2021
Under such circumstances, education becomes more than an obsession with accountability schemes, testing, market values and an unreflective immersion in the crude empiricism of a data-obsessed market-driven society.
From Salon • Feb. 18, 2019
Human nature, unsophisticated and unqualified, with the crude impulses and the contradictions proper to an unreflective age, has been studied by Boiardo for his men and women.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
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