nonthinking

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonthinking
Adjective
  • There’s the interest in Britney Spears and pop icons who had been assumed to be vacant, unthinking ingénues.
    Brandon Tensley, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The point is made: Pinocchio might have a hole where his heart should be, but is the unthinking servile person any less hollow?
    Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • Satire is brilliant for exposing the folly of humans, especially those in power and those working in bad faith—the hypocrites and the frauds—and can be particularly potent when set in irrational or dystopic times.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • But why are these fears irrational?
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • The life of an unattractive and unintelligent young woman living in a dreary backwater in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
    New York Times, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The man seemed to think he was surrounded by incompetent, unintelligent, wastes of space.
    Josh Davis, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Mid-century collective behavior theories considered social movements to be nonrational, spontaneous events occurring during moments of social and cultural breakdown.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Let sound political prescience but take the place of an unreasoning prejudice, and this will be done.
    Frederick Douglass, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2017
Adjective
  • Officers are able to use loitering laws as general warrants to circumvent individuals’ constitutional right to be protected from unreasonable searches and seizures, Wood said.
    Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The class counsel has argued that objectors are raising either points that were already decided, inappropriate for this forum, or unreasonable to address.
    Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 5 Nov. 2025
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“Nonthinking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonthinking. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.

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