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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 frozen official arrangements for international order are increasingly unreflective of the global distribution of material power.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2022
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 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
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
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
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 frozen official arrangements for international order are increasingly unreflective of the global distribution of material power.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2022
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 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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreflective
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In an inordinately cowardly and cruel act, Rubio stayed away from the department that day, ignoring the men and women whose careers and life plans were decimated by his flippant decision-making.—
Lynn Northcutt Vega,
Sun Sentinel,
29 July 2025
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Their communication style skews casual, which can be misread as flippant.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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About six months later, the Parker family — including Bernedoodle Ben, the household boss; and Toby, the energetic and goofy chocolate Labrador — moved into their new home.—
Lennie Omalza,
The Courier-Journal,
1 Aug. 2025
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Aside from all the goofy mistakes and delays, use today’s influence to finish old work, especially work that requires thinking outside the box.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
30 July 2025
Adjective
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Miller takes on the role of Victoria, a frivolous movie star, while Beecham is Georgina, an NHS nurse with an errant husband.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
8 Aug. 2025
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Mercer’s table feels like an at-home Dungeons & Dragons campaign, with frivolous shopping episodes, long-brewing backstory revelations, and the fostering of relationships throughout the campaign.—
Dana Reboe,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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
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The company enlisted Donald Duck’s scatterbrained cartoon uncle, Prof. Ludwig Von Drake, in a video on votedisney.com to make its case that Disney’s current board members are up to the job.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Feb. 2024
Adjective
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But Russians are also considered by their leaders as an unthinking mass that must blindly follow their leader.—
Andrei Kolesnikov,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Apr. 2022
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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
Adjective
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In the days depicted in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, thoughtless incarceration of the mentally ill was too common.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 July 2025
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Even the most robust firewalls can be rendered ineffective with a single thoughtless click.—
Stu Sjouwerman,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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“Unreflective.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreflective. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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