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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not deliberate.

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Examples

  • One with a strong stomach and a hard head may be able to tolerate much of the unconscious and undeliberate cruelty and torture of the world that is perpetrated in hot blood and stupidity.

    FOREWORD 2010

  • His wings moved in slow, undeliberate motions, like the passage of clouds across the sky.

    City of Glass Cassandra Clare 2009

  • His wings moved in slow, undeliberate motions, like the passage of clouds across the sky.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • Though the river may flow on forever, oblivious to the men that come and go along its shores, yet the passing generations may transform this undeliberate flowing into the power that yields them clothing, machinery, and transportation.

    Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

  • And apart from the involuntary and undeliberate adoption of Roman standards, which, living isolated from

    Josephus Norman Bentwich 1927

  • One with a strong stomach and a hard head may be able to tolerate much of the unconscious and undeliberate cruelty and torture of the world that is perpetrated in hot blood and stupidity.

    Foreword 1917

  • And apart from the involuntary and undeliberate adoption of Roman standards, which, living isolated from Jewish life in Rome, he could not escape, he had in writing, and no doubt in conversation, deliberately and consciously to assume the deepest-seated of the Roman prejudices towards his own people.

    Josephus Bentwich, Norman 1914

  • The vision passed as swiftly as it came, dropping back again into the submerged region of his consciousness; but he never forgot it, and the whole of his life thereafter became a sort of natural though undeliberate preparation for the fulfilment of the great duty when the time should be ripe.

    Four Weird Tales Algernon Blackwood 1910

  • A rough movement, a too undeliberate speech, and the absurdity of the thing might be given away.

    The Story of My Life Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 1908

  • But his companion had already vanished in the thicket with the undeliberate and impulsive act of an animal.

    A Sappho of Green Springs Bret Harte 1869

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