Uncritical
[ʌn'krɪtɪk(ə)l] or [,ʌn'krɪtɪkl]
Definition
(adj.) not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors; 'a devoted and almost uncritical admirer' .
(adj.) marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures; 'news sources reflected uncritical estimates of the number of juvenile addicts' .
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Definition
adj. not critical without appetite or ability for critical analysis: not in accordance with the rules of criticism.—adv. Uncrit′ically.
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Examples
- It need hardly be remarked that his use both of Greek and of Roman historians and of the sacred writings of the Jews is wholly uncritical. Plato. The Republic.
- There is a vein of mysticism in American life, and Mr. Bryan is its uncritical prophet. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Selden had given her of his best; but he was as incapable as herself of an uncritical return to former states of feeling. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Gerty Farish, seated next to Selden, was lost in that indiscriminate and uncritical enjoyment so irritating to Miss Bart's finer perceptions. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But that disposition, left to itself, is a vague and very uncritical disposition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They may have been mistaken: Roosevelt may be uncritical in his judgments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We are still uncritical. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A vague common tradition is in the air about us--it expresses itself in journalism, in cheap novels, in the uncritical theater. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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