Nothing is more unscientific or unintelligent than to scoff at a thing, while refusing to examine whether there is anything in it.
This dead weight includes most of the unintelligent memorizing, all exceptions, all complicated systems of declension and conjugation, all irregular comparison of adjectives and adverbs, all syntactical subtleties (cf.
It is possible to overdo even the best of rules by slavish andunintelligent application.
He gets discouraged, and develops a habit of only working enough to keep out of trouble with the school authorities, and is apt to leave school with anunintelligent attitude towards intellectual things in general.
That is why I like the party obedience of your country, Wilkes; it is entirely unintelligent and profoundly immoral; to a generally intellectual nation it would be impossible, but it is loyal.
Nobody on the way, none of the frowzy women or unintelligent men, knew anything of the route, or could give us any information of the country beyond.
And to effect this mere holding on, with the vagabond crew that composed most of the colony, and with the extravagant and unintelligent expectations of the London Company, was a feat showing decided ability.
A proletariat without any political rights in a republic is no more dangerous than an unintelligent mob which can be used in elections by demagogues.
This Quast apparently was a faithful, stolid, but unintelligent and incapable German who had remained loyally at his post until Lola found him there in a state of semi-starvation.
His broken nose gave his face a singularly unintelligent expression.
In the case of some instincts, originating by the natural selection of unintelligent activities, the perceptual element may never have emerged, and the initiation may have been a mere sense-stimulus.
Unintelligent endurance is in this case courage: but unintelligent endurance was acknowledged to be bad and hurtful, and courage to be a fine thing.
One combination of molecules gave rise to unorganized matter, another to life, another to mind; and from the various combinations, guided by unintelligent physical laws, all the wonderful organisms of plants and animals have arisen.
Even putting aside the question whether Nature, acting as she does according to definite and invariable laws, can be rightly called anunintelligent agent, such a position as this is wholly untenable.
Some of the books at present included in the college entrance requirement, it must be added, lend themselves too much to unintelligent pedantry.
With the pressure of a doubtful system and of unintelligent custom always upon us, few of us, it is to be feared, would escape without a sore conscience.
I am aware that even the poems before me would drive numerous not wholly unintelligent readers into a fury of rage-out-of-puzzlement.
The incredibly lazy, involved and unintelligentdescription of the trial of Cowperwood I have already mentioned.
Fred Lewis Pattee, one of the latest and undoubtedly one of the least unintelligent of these books.
We have now considered the theory of the atheistical evolution of man, and of all plants and animals from one primeval germ, by the unintelligent operation of the powers of nature.
All will thus tend to perfect themselves according to the laws of nature, and without any special oversight or care of God, or of anybody but Natural Selection; which Mr. Darwin takes special care to describe as an unintelligent selector.
Landor, in 1847, thought this criticism of Cowper's an unintelligent one; he could not conceive how a poet so great as Cowper came to pass such a judgment.
First there was the lengthy process of empanelling a jury, with the inevitable accompaniment of challenges and objections, until the most unintelligent looking dozen of the panel finally found themselves in the jury box.
In the Duomo, which was spoiled by unintelligent rebuilding at a dismal epoch of barren art, are fragments of one of the rarest monuments of Tuscan sculpture.
These frescoes have suffered so much from neglect and time, and from unintelligent restoration, that it is difficult in many cases to determine their true character.
While a few towns have succeeded in enacting fairly good laws, the majority have either passed no shellfish regulations at all, or made matters worse by unintelligentand harmful laws.
While the majority of these unintelligent laws do no harm, there are some that work hardship to the fishermen and are an injury to the shellfisheries.
When at length she heard a knock at the door it filled her with fear; she started to her feet and looked with unintelligent eyes at the woman who again presented herself.
And the same reasoning will apply to all other powers or forces which are generally ascribed to unintelligent matter.
Though deprived of all energy or force, unintelligent matter would still be possessed of those inert qualities (if, indeed, they may be called qualities) essential to its existence.
If this be true, (and we feel no disposition to deny it), then weight is not the property of unintelligent matter, but a property of mind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unintelligent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
