unreflective

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Recent Examples of unreflective 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 The one problem the team saw was that the reflective layer didn't make solid contact with the unreflective one when it was unrolled, which limited the amount of heat that could transfer between the two. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreflective
Adjective
  • In turn, much of My Face Hurts From Smiling is downright flippant.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2025
  • Her flippant attitude toward school, her refusal to talk through her grief, and her slippery grasp on the concepts of right and wrong can all be traced to that fateful night in this garage.
    Stacia Brown, Vulture, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • Dead Snow, though, bearing a poster that’s as good as the actual film, prides itself on its constant assault of goofy violence.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 18 June 2025
  • Despite the lack of bombast, The Alters tells a compelling and heartfelt narrative, with some goofier moments to break up the unrelenting drama.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 14 June 2025
Adjective
  • Altman changes his protagonist to a subsistence farmer who watches people have ever more frivolous jobs – less physical work, less concrete roles, more creative noodling and more flexibility.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Theater talk is some of the most frivolous talk, and it should be shouted from the rooftops.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 June 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Multiple offenses for each race will mean long jail sentences and $100,000+ in fines, which should finally get the attention of these thoughtless fools.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 17 June 2025
  • That was still true at the end of Thursday’s first quarter, when Cardoso turned around from a routine rebound and threw an awkward, thoughtless pass straight into the hands of the Wings’ Paige Bueckers.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2025

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“Unreflective.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreflective. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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