unreflective

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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. 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
  • What’s meant as friendly can easily come across as awkward, flippant, or unclear.
    Nirit Cohen, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Where internet trolls often come off as flippant or spiteful, there is a relentless sense of play and mastery of language in even McNally’s most needling posts.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Hope Anne is goofy, affectionate, full of zest, and has so much love to give.
    Trish Stinger, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Gangly giraffes punctuated the grasslands like goofy exclamation points.
    The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The debate may indeed seem frivolous and one of luxury to many, but come next May, MIA will take it up a notch.
    Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Justice Defenders operates with a combination of federal money and in-kind ABA contributions, using the funds to support human rights defenders facing criminal charges, frivolous lawsuits and harassment.
    Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Boiled down to a thoughtless pervert by the public, Six became one.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025
  • 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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“Unreflective.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreflective. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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