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Recent Examples of unreflective
The series stands alone, especially in one regard, which is key to its appeal: its unabashed and unreflective aspiration.
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Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
Impulses are unreflective urges or a strong desire to act without thinking.
—Eric Wood, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
These people are concerned that the superficial—attention to looks—will obscure and distract us from what is truly significant, turning us into unserious and unreflective people incapable of making the best of what’s left.
—Judith Viorst, Allure, 1 Apr. 2025
The point of the book isn’t to solve the case or bring Kenny to justice, but to systematically reveal the paralyzing sinkhole of injustice that dissolves all hope and all strategies of resistance into a flat, unreflective goo.
—Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
The chapter is, on the whole, as brusquely unreflective as its title suggests.
—Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 24 Nov. 2022
The composition of state legislatures is unreflective of the overall population, according to research from New American Leaders, a group that works to involve immigrants and first-generation Americans in politics.
—Eleanor Lutz, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2022
The frozen official arrangements for international order are increasingly unreflective of the global distribution of material power.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2022
Cage turns its unreflective dramatic form and unchallenging narrative conventions into a kind of living nightmare, which bypasses the movie’s mediocre ideas and trivial plot and raises it—if only a few fleeting moments at a time—into the realm of the extraordinary.
—Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 17 July 2021
Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
Impulses are unreflective urges or a strong desire to act without thinking.
—Eric Wood, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
These people are concerned that the superficial—attention to looks—will obscure and distract us from what is truly significant, turning us into unserious and unreflective people incapable of making the best of what’s left.
—Judith Viorst, Allure, 1 Apr. 2025
The point of the book isn’t to solve the case or bring Kenny to justice, but to systematically reveal the paralyzing sinkhole of injustice that dissolves all hope and all strategies of resistance into a flat, unreflective goo.
—Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
The chapter is, on the whole, as brusquely unreflective as its title suggests.
—Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 24 Nov. 2022
The composition of state legislatures is unreflective of the overall population, according to research from New American Leaders, a group that works to involve immigrants and first-generation Americans in politics.
—Eleanor Lutz, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2022
The frozen official arrangements for international order are increasingly unreflective of the global distribution of material power.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2022
Cage turns its unreflective dramatic form and unchallenging narrative conventions into a kind of living nightmare, which bypasses the movie’s mediocre ideas and trivial plot and raises it—if only a few fleeting moments at a time—into the realm of the extraordinary.
—Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 17 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreflective
Adjective
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Worse for Wilson, Sherman's Hall of Fame broadcast teammate, Tony Gonzalez, bordered on flippant in dismissing Wilson's candidacy.—
Mike Sando,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Kimmel, who has spent most of his late-night career as a flippant but not particularly scandalous figure, acknowledged just how scary things had become that the White House might take aim at him.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And Kailey Agpaoa is goofy and funny as Doctor Sister, a self-sacrificing but fierce young woman who has given up her dreams to care of her aging parents while her older sister has a husband and medical career.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
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And so, the film’s spartan spell is undone by snatches of pedestrian drama and goofy, surreal symbolism.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But not everyone qualifies for — or wants — asylum, attorneys said, and filing a frivolous claim risks steeper, even lifelong, penalties.—
Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
22 Sep. 2025
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Since the 2024 election, the news had become relentless, daily cruelties laid out so matter-of-factly that creativity seemed frivolous, even pointless.—
Karen Palmer
September 19,
Literary Hub,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Susan Blanchard co-starred as Tina Kelly, his scatterbrained housekeeper.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The novel begins on a Monday afternoon like any other at its three adolescent central characters’ loving but scatterbrained aunt Xía’s house in Miami.—
Juan Vidal,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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The lack of racial diversity in Alt-Evergreen isn’t just the result of a thoughtless approach to casting background extras.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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Boiled down to a thoughtless pervert by the public, Six became one.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Unreflective.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreflective. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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