unreflective
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of unreflective
First recorded in 1850–55; un- 1 + reflective
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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
Under such circumstances, education becomes more than an obsession with accountability schemes and market values, and an unreflective immersion in the crude empiricism of a data-obsessed market-driven society.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2021
Evil rejects reason and contemplation, and it is fundamentally unreflective.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2019
Dewey makes 'knowing' the servant of 'direct experience' by giving it the function of reconstructing the habits of the organism, in order that unreflective experience may be maintained with a minimum of effort.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
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