irreflective

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We produced it," said Mr. Gladstone, "with a general, lazy, uninformed, and irreflective good intention of taking capital to Ireland.

From Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question by Godkin, Edwin Lawrence

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

At such moments he had an irreflective courage, which prompted him to utter what he thought without regard to anything but the common civilities of life.

From The Crown of Life by Gissing, George

But this he can bear, because his noble mind recognises its own greatness; he regards his jeering brethren in the same light as the philosophic writer beholds 'the vapid and irreflective reader.'

From Some Private Views by Payn, James

But how could we think it, if the only possible life was that one which we intend to think, and not the one with which we think this irreflective life?

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni