unthinkingly
English
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From unthinking + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]unthinkingly (comparative more unthinkingly, superlative most unthinkingly)
- In an unthinking manner.
- 1846, [John Ruskin], “General Inferences Respecting Typical Beauty”, in Modern Painters […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part III (Of Ideas of Beauty), section I (Of the Theoretic Faculty), § 4, pages 82–83:
- The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature, it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.
- 2007, Janet Mason Ellerby, “Richard Nixon and Me”, in Following the Tambourine Man: A Birthmother’s Memoir, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, section “San Marino, 1962”, page 24:
- But, while I was still the girl my parents expected me to be, I was asked to be a Nixonette, and I merrily, unthinkingly donned my white dress and red, white, and blue banner. One of our Nixonette duties was to stand on the curb in front of the San Marino Republican Headquarters and welcome the candidate to town.
- 2010, “The Pope Song”, Tim Minchin (music)[1]:
- And I don't give a fuck if calling the pope a motherfucker / means you unthinkingly brand me an unthinking apostate.
Translations
[edit]in an unthinking manner
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