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
  • Like an unthinking Instagram user, the dolls both shop and are sold as products themselves.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • The evidence also suggests that blind, unthinking panic is rare.
    — M. Mitchell Waldrop, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
  • That's why our unthinking response in the experiment is a generous one.
    — Gaia Vince, CNN, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Bipartisan support often means unthinking support (as the founders could have told you).
    — Jonah Goldberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 July 2017
  • To stay in that state of unthinking presence was like walking a tightrope only to suddenly look down, panic, and come plunging back to Earth.
    — Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
  • People stop looking at him with unthinking respect and admiration.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 12 Oct. 2018
  • 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
  • Along the way, Daisy and Hoke each will confront, acknowledge and, in a way, overcome their own often-unthinking prejudice.
    — Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Our tribal politics have become extreme, unthinking, and deadly.
    — Cedric L. Alexander, CNN, 16 June 2017
  • Similarly, investors own utilities for their steady dividends funded by all of us unthinking bill-payers.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Titans are former Eldians, forcibly transformed into unthinking beasts by a nation called Marley.
    — Shaan Amin, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Moral complexity may be an argument against unthinking iconoclasm.
    — Kenan Malik, The New York Review of Books, 9 Sep. 2020
  • But not when a senior government official blunders in unprepared, unthinking and unhelpful.
    — Madeline Roache, Time, 21 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • The boomers worked with the material they were given, and part of what they were given was a lifeless religious establishmentarianism and an unthinking faith in the power of government.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • The unthinking ageism that has crept into much of the discussion about climate change is a serious problem, given the growing demographic weight and financial power of the older population.
    — Bobby Duffy, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021
  • In contrast, Dessalines is typically described as violent, unthinking, emotional and heartless.
    — Julia Gaffield, The Conversation, 15 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Posters on the platform often used the term in anti-Semitic ways, such as in the terms goyslop (unhealthy foods that these conspiracy theorists believed were a Jewish plot to hinder gentiles) and goycattle (the unthinking masses who are constantly being manipulated by Jewish people).
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026

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