Like a life that's not worth living, per Socrates

Usage examples of unexamined.

The Unexamined Life has its notorious Blind Bouncer night every Friday where they card you on the Honor System.

The Unexamined Life tavern on Blind Bouncer nights when Hal is in there with like Axford, Hal hitting The Life quite a bit less frequently than Axford and Struck and Troeltsch, who rarely miss a Bring-Your-Braille-I.

There is a general human propensity, of which much use is made in the Discworld books, to set up accepted, unexamined mental backgrounds.

All these have their place in the unexamined basis of our day-to-day thoughts and actions.

But these sit upon a great mass of mostly unexamined structural human material, that labels us as Western Twentieth-Century Biologist or Ghetto Rabbi or Roman Centurion or Seventeenth-Century French Courtesan, or, for most people most of the time, Exploited Peasant.

Future History to him, the author gets slowly potted while silently trying-and failing-to come up with a story idea that would rationalize all the unexamined and often mutually contradictory assumptions behind that future history.

There are, to be sure, fundamental differences in the life and attitude of Wang Lung which the Western reader will recognize---his sense of responsibility toward the past and the future, his inarticulate and unexamined consciousness of his family as a permanent entity, and the dignity and importance which this consciousness lends to his humble place in the scheme of things.

I promised to do my best and did so, leaving no library unexamined and no bookseller unbothered by my enquiries.

Stepping over a slimy pile best left unexamined, Rani huddled against the daub and wattle, taking only an instant to pull her clothes closer, to protect her skin from the filthy building.

Tax-increment financing often depends on unexamined assumptions about government responsibility for economic growth and ecological destruction.

Plucked from my unexamined life among other pleasant, desperate, money-making young Americans, thrown backward in space and time, I am beginning to understand how I went wrong, how we all go wrong.

Bundles of data that had waited, circulating unexamined in the box of valves, became suddenly relevant, interacting with this extraordinary new mode of calculation, this autotelic processing.

No such thing as a candid camera, an unposed picture, an unexamined life.

It has made deep inroads into the humanities, and its unexamined assumptions have a hold within nearly every field of scholarship.

An analysis of this hitherto unexamined side of Leonardo provides us with a useful means of framing and contextualizing his life.