Example Sentences

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So I don’t so much see totally unthoughtful gifts as attempts to answer the age-old question of, “What do you give someone who doesn’t need anything?”

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2023

The implicit notion seems to be that ridding ourselves of “bad” foods, unthoughtful thoughts and every last pellet of faeces can help us achieve not only health, but something approaching a state of purity.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2018

“I’ve never had an unthoughtful conversation with him.”

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2018

"Tom's getting very profound," said Daisy with an expression of unthoughtful sadness.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

It would harm science, he argued, to “endorse what appears to be an unthoughtful program.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik