unreasoning
Example Sentences
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While those words are engraved in historical memory, the ones that immediately follow are just as important: Roosevelt singled out the "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
From Salon • Sep. 12, 2021
This entire column is really a stretch, it's ivory tower luxury to contemplate "unreasoning obscurantism" and its connection to macrobiotic diets.
From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2018
Not everyone agrees that today’s fears are unreasoning or unjustified.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2016
If it is simply a matter of introducing into the process some figure in whom the public has unreasoning trust, we might just as plausibly have the president’s targeting decisions reviewed by Oprah.
From Time • Feb. 19, 2013
After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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