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
  • Losing Fed independence is like giving free rein to emotional, irrational decision making.
    Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Maura’s performance makes Maria Angeles so magnetic and eccentric — earthily practical on some matters, dizzily irrational on others, and sympathetically true to herself on all fronts — that all the film’s other players want for detail and texture by comparison.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Even today, there are many settings in which the Christian faith is considered absurd, meant for the weak and unintelligent.
    Daniel Burke, NPR, 9 May 2025
  • The show and its participants were even parodied on Saturday Night Live in January, with comedian Ego Nwodim playing Amuli, and other cast members mocking people’s poor conversation skills and unintelligent dating decisions.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 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
  • We're protected from unreasonable searches and seizures.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This is a crude and unreasonable attempt to make the discussion into an all-or-nothing affair.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Nonthinking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonthinking. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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