How to Use unthinking in a Sentence
unthinking
adjective- His unthinking agreement made me uneasy.
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May’s team put out a slate of slogans that offered an easy, unthinking answer.
—Samuel Earle, The Atlantic, 7 June 2017
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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
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Like an unthinking Instagram user, the dolls both shop and are sold as products themselves.
—Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
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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
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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
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Bezos has turned his site into an almost unthinking habit.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
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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
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That's why our unthinking response in the experiment is a generous one.
—Gaia Vince, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
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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
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Bipartisan support often means unthinking support (as the founders could have told you).
—Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 July 2017
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The Titans are former Eldians, forcibly transformed into unthinking beasts by a nation called Marley.
—Shaan Amin, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2020
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The evidence also suggests that blind, unthinking panic is rare.
—M. Mitchell Waldrop, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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People stop looking at him with unthinking respect and admiration.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 12 Oct. 2018
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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
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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
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Similarly, investors own utilities for their steady dividends funded by all of us unthinking bill-payers.
—Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
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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
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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
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Our tribal politics have become extreme, unthinking, and deadly.
—Cedric L. Alexander, CNN, 16 June 2017
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But not when a senior government official blunders in unprepared, unthinking and unhelpful.
—Madeline Roache, Time, 21 June 2019
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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
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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
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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
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Moral complexity may be an argument against unthinking iconoclasm.
—Kenan Malik, The New York Review of Books, 9 Sep. 2020
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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
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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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