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How to use uncritical in a sentence

15 example sentences · adjective

Uncritical means lacking critique or critical examination; undiscriminating. Example: “More importantly, the rehearsing of that information has been almost completely uncritical, indicating a lack of recourse to any further information about the term.”

Examples of uncritical by meaning

adjectiveLacking critique or critical examination; undiscriminating.

  • an uncritical review
  • More importantly, the rehearsing of that information has been almost completely uncritical, indicating a lack of recourse to any further information about the term.2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27...

adjectiveSlow to criticize.

  • uncritical to the point of tolerating incompetence, jeopardizing the business model

More sentences with uncritical

  • Transbutches embody a third space (with others) between the uncritical celebration of “womanhood” and its rejection entirely.2014, Jen Manion, "Transbutch", Transgender Studies Quarterly, Volume 2, Numbers 1-2, May 2014. From the entry transbutch
  • Metaphysics stagnates in scienceless (or uncritical) cultures; it is progressive in scientific ones.2012, Joseph Agassi, Science in Flux. From the entry doctrine
  • It leads to an uncritical dichotomy between disorderly people and law abiders.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order. From the entry law abider
  • At first, fearing the repressive state apparatus, the author, the publisher and the audience turned to uncritical, mass-market books.2019 June 27, Rasoul Mohsenzadeh, Mohammad Mostafavi Rad, “Dynamic History of Iranian Book Publishing in Political and Social Settings”…. From the entry decontextualize
  • What the film rarely does is challenge or interrogate the fan culture to which it plays uncritical tribute.2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V.…. From the entry wheelhouse
  • The book opens with an examination of warism, the uncritical presumption that war is morally justified, even morally required.1991, Patrick G. Coy, Review of From Warism to Pacifism: A Moral Continuum, by D. L. Cady. International Social Science Review, 66(4)…. From the entry warism
  • Uncritical reading and inappropriate intellectual endeavor were frequently satirized in the form of a naive or Quixotic lady.1980, The Durham University Journal, page 234. From the entry quixotic
  • Later, as the political atmosphere gradually opened up, the audiences raised in that historical timeframe remained the audience of the same uncritical works.2019 June 27, Rasoul Mohsenzadeh, Mohammad Mostafavi Rad, “Dynamic History of Iranian Book Publishing in Political and Social Settings”…. From the entry decontextualize
  • Instead it recommends how to preen the city for the uncritical gaze of a kind of tourist who willingly accepts low-grade commercialized leisure.2011, Dean MacCannell, The Ethics of Sightseeing, page 200. From the entry preen
  • At the same time, we must not be uncritical of 'peacespeak' which sometimes glosses over the stark realities of painful choices in a fallen world.1989 April, David Lyon, “Against The Stream”, in Third Way, volume 12, number 4, page 17. From the entry peacespeak
  • Dysconsciousness is an uncritical habit of mind (including perceptions, attitudes, assumptions, and beliefs) that justifies inequity and exploitation by accepting the existing order of things as given.1991 Spring, Joyce E[laine] King, “Dysconscious Racism: Ideology, Identity, and the Miseducation of Teachers”, in Journal of Negro…. From the entry dysconsciousness
  • The legacy of colonialism continues and expands to include those who self-colonize thereby reaffirming Weber's caricatures and uncritical idealisations of Westernisation and law or even to idealisations of Islamic law.2013, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Anne Griffiths, The Power Of Law In A Transnational World: Anthropological…. From the entry self-colonize

Meaning of uncritical

  1. adjective Lacking critique or critical examination; undiscriminating.
  2. adjective Having a disregard for critical standards or procedures.
  3. adjective Slow to criticize.

Full definition of uncritical

Questions about uncritical in a sentence

How do you use uncritical in a sentence?
Uncritical is used as an adjective. For example: “More importantly, the rehearsing of that information has been almost completely uncritical, indicating a lack of recourse to any further information about the term.”
What is a short sentence with uncritical?
“an uncritical review”
What does uncritical mean?
Uncritical means lacking critique or critical examination; undiscriminating.

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