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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uncritical
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
acceptance
▪ Nevertheless, uncritical acceptance of the results of classical twin studies may have misled a generation of researchers.
▪ Researchers may be unaware of their uncritical acceptance of categories and consequent results.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an uncritical attitude toward new technologies
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Clearly, an unreflective or uncritical citizenry would be highly undesirable as well as, strictly speaking, a contradiction in terms.
▪ He observes, Those of us socialized in modern societies generally maintain an irrationally uncritical attitude toward new technologies.
▪ In this context self-observation must always be uncritical.
▪ It is, in short, uncritical in the sense of failing to site Debord's films within an adequate theoretical discourse.
▪ Kuhn argues that science education is characterized by an uncritical teaching of the dominant paradigm within a subject.
▪ Later on, many pentecostals would accept these very values in a surprisingly uncritical way.
▪ The mutual dependency expressed here can be seen in an almost completely uncritical reading experience.
▪ X-rays were greeted with uncritical enthusiasm.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uncritical

1650s, from un- (1) "not" + critical. Similar formation in Dutch onkritisch, German unkritisch, Danish unkritisk. Related: Uncritically.

Wiktionary
uncritical

a. 1 indulgent or undiscriminating; slow to criticize 2 having a disregard for critical standards or procedures

WordNet
uncritical

  1. adj. marked by disregard for critical standards or procedures; "news sources reflected uncritical estimates of the number of juvenile addicts" [syn: noncritical] [ant: critical]

  2. not critical; not tending to find or call attention to errors; "a devoted and almost uncritical admirer" [ant: critical]

  3. lacking in discrimination; "she was absolutely uncritical, she believed everything"

Usage examples of "uncritical".

But the academic economists, and still more so Marx and his followers, refuse to deal with these fundamentals, and, with a stupid pose of sound practical wisdom, insist on opening up their case with an uncritical acceptance of the common antagonism of employers and employed and a long rigmarole about profits and wages.

It must be said, however, that Phlegon also took down, with the same avid and uncritical curiosity for everything beyond ordinary experience, some absurd stories of two-headed monsters, and of hermaphrodites got with child.

It is hard to conceive anything more infuriating to a statesman or a military commander, or to a court favorite, than to be overruled at every turn, or to be robbed of the ear of the reigning sovereign, by an impudent young upstart practising on the credulity of the populace and the vanity and silliness of an immature prince by exploiting a few of those lucky coincidences which pass as miracles with uncritical people.

Over the years, a profusion of credulous, uncritical TV series and `specials' - on ESP, channelling, the Bermuda Triangle, UFOs, ancient astronauts, Big Foot, and the like - have been spawned.

Bindlestiff was a dog they had picked up beside the road, far out in the desert, given water and succor and received in return his large uncritical heart.

It meant being lionized and free drinks and an uncritical appreciation of his banjo-playing.

They appealed by catering to the needs of individuals to discover some purpose and to affirm their identity in a risk-free, unstructured society, and to the fascination of the uncritical for peculiar beliefs.

To claim to 'respect' and even to 'love' the great mass with their yaps at one end and smelly feet at the other requires the fatuous, uncritical, saccharine, blind, sentimental slobbishness found in some nursery supervisors, most spaniel dogs, and all missionaries.

To claim to ‘respect’ and even to ‘love’ the great mass with their yaps at one end and smelly feet at the other requires the fatuous, uncritical, saccharine, blind, sentimental slobbishness found in some nursery supervisors, most spaniel dogs, and all missionaries.

What He wants of the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful, but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise—does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.

What He wants of the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful, but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise÷does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.