irreflective

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He obeys his instincts and indulges his appetites with the irreflective simplicity of an animal.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

I address you as a true philosopher of nature, foreseeing the perpetual misery your irreflective character and total absence of moral discernment are preparing for' &c.

From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas

Later, when the journeys to Europe ceased, he still had shown his children all sorts of indulgence, and if he had been troubled about money-matters nothing ever disturbed their irreflective consciousness of many possessions.

From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by James, Henry

“Far behind Scott in the power of instinctive, irreflective, spontaneous creation of character, Stevenson tells his story with more art and with a firmer grip on his reader.”

From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

There is a strange humour about the subtle gradations by which girlhood passes out of all this free, genial, irreflective life into the self-consciousness, the reserve, the artificiality of womanhood.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard