Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com

unintelligently

ADVERB
obtusely
Synonyms


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

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

I called to her, for I dared not go into the haunted chamber; but she only gazed sideways and unintelligently toward me; and continued her noiseless searchings.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville

She joined in, enthusiastically but unintelligently, concealing herself in various parts of the house without regard to Smith’s habits.

From The Island Mystery by George A. Birmingham

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 T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott

The author also falls foul of Mr. Tom Taylor, who does the reports of the exhibitions in the Times, and who had the misfortune, fifteen years ago, to express himself rather unintelligently about Velasquez.

From Views and Reviews by Henry James


Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember new words for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com