unintelligently

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When he became well he had the impulse to document himself, to start a movement for the amelioration of the then unintelligently managed insane asylums.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir Nicholas' ruddy face had paled, his mouth was half open with dismay, and he stared almost unintelligently at the magistrate.

From By What Authority? by Benson, Robert Hugh

The social prejudice, confined to a small section of the upper middle class, against the studio which lingered so long and so unintelligently in England is easily explained.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

Measuredly, clearly, but unintelligently, Allaraine pronounced the words that were to him a mystery; and Istar listened, wondering, a dim foreboding at her heart.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton

They are born Pagans; and when this noble, tortured soul flings himself at their feet in feverish worship, one feels that, out of their Homeric Hades, they look wonderingly, unintelligently, at him.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper