How to Use unthinking in a Sentence

unthinking

adjective

• His unthinking agreement made me uneasy.
• May’s team put out a slate of slogans that offered an easy, unthinking answer.
  — Samuel Earle, The Atlantic, 7 June 2017
• This has less to do with the Christian proposition and more to do with a modish and unthinking progressivism.
  — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
• Like an unthinking Instagram user, the dolls both shop and are sold as products themselves.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
• The caricature that has emerged of Johnson over the years is something of an unthinking brute, a byproduct of his physical gifts.
  — Brian Costa, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• One example of our unthinking bludgeoning of the landscape is to be seen in the sagebrush lands of the West, where a vast campaign has been launched to destroy the sage and substitute grass.
  — Rachel Carson, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 1950
• Bezos has turned his site into an almost unthinking habit.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
• In the same month Donald Trump was elected, this white woman’s unthinking words served as a stinging reminder of just how many people in this country look at me and see not an American.
  — Nicole Chung, Longreads, 28 Sep. 2017
• That's why our unthinking response in the experiment is a generous one.
  — Gaia Vince, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
• Everyone who comes to D.C. has either a willful or an unthinking amnesia about what's been done before.
  — John Fritze, baltimoresun.com, 29 Apr. 2017
• Bipartisan support often means unthinking support (as the founders could have told you).
  — Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 July 2017
• The Titans are former Eldians, forcibly transformed into unthinking beasts by a nation called Marley.
  — Shaan Amin, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2020
• The evidence also suggests that blind, unthinking panic is rare.
  — M. Mitchell Waldrop, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
• The attempt to conflate that with homophobia is a sign of the unthinking nature of some liberal responses to religion.
  — Josh Rothman, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• Young Cecil is an incipient fascist; Miss Gates a willing and unthinking apologist; and the unjustly accused Tom ends up dead.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 20 Aug. 2017
• The frenetic and unthinking clampdown on the seasonal visas has been disastrous for Maryland’s fragile and beloved blue crab industry.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 7 May 2018
• People stop looking at him with unthinking respect and admiration.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 12 Oct. 2018
• But a lot of unexamined assumptions lurk within Warshow’s idea, in particular an unthinking universalism that supposes both the critic and the ticket-buyer to be male.
  — A.o. Scott and Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
• The same things that titillated Trump’s base titillated producers and pundits in Moscow: the manliness, the bravado, the unflinching, unthinking patriotism, the faith in all things phallic.
  — Peter Savodnik, The Hive, 7 Mar. 2017
• Similarly, investors own utilities for their steady dividends funded by all of us unthinking bill-payers.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• Both novels use the Brontë fictions to explore the role of the outcast in society and the various forms that imperial, patriarchal oppression — both unthinking and intentional — can take.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2018
• Mr. Trump’s unthinking populism continues to worry a few Beltway types, but most Trump doubters on the right have been won over by his cabinet choices, which betray a sophistication about policy and personnel that few expected of him.
  — Andrew Ferguson, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2017
• Our tribal politics have become extreme, unthinking, and deadly.
  — Cedric L. Alexander, CNN, 16 June 2017
• But not when a senior government official blunders in unprepared, unthinking and unhelpful.
  — Madeline Roache, Time, 21 June 2019
• Intense emotion, unsurprisingly, suffuses these writings, as does longing for our prior, unthinking ease of connection and closeness.
  — Joan Frank, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2020
• Yet their failure, whether by accident or by unthinking design, can have catastrophic consequences for individuals and society alike.
  — Yonatan Zunger, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Unlike the Corker-Kaine bill, this actually would require Congress to review the authorization on a periodic basis, preventing war from becoming this country’s unthinking default.
  — Elizabeth Goitein, Fortune, 4 June 2018
• Moral complexity may be an argument against unthinking iconoclasm.
  — Kenan Malik, The New York Review of Books, 9 Sep. 2020
• Spore is essentially a series of various gaming genres concentrated down to their bare essentials and wrapped in an unthinking, unapologetically uncontroversial story of how life came to be.
  — Earnest Cavalli, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2008
• Smith’s narrative conveys the system’s unthinking superiority, the lazy morality, the philistinism, the sense of demanded privilege and analyzes it cannily.
  — William Boyd, New York Times, 10 May 2017

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