uncritical

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Etymology

From un- +‎ critical.

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Adjective

uncritical (comparative more uncritical, superlative most uncritical)

  1. Lacking critique or critical examination; undiscriminating.
    an uncritical review
    • c. 1827-1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Hacket:
      Let any competent judge read Hacket's Life of Archbishop Williams, and then these Sermons, and so measure the stultifying, nugifying effect of a blind and uncritical study of the Fathers
    • 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 55:
      More importantly, the rehearsing of that information has been almost completely uncritical, indicating a lack of recourse to any further information about the term.
  2. Having a disregard for critical standards or procedures. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. Slow to criticize.
    uncritical to the point of tolerating incompetence, jeopardizing the business model

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