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unphilosophically

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an unphilosophical manner; irrationally; not calmly.

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  • adverb In an unphilosophical way.

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Examples

  • "unphilosophically" and "unwisely," above all, IMPRUDENTLY, and feels the obligation and burden of a hundred attempts and temptations of life -- he risks HIMSELF constantly, he plays THIS bad game.

    Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

  • We think we have succeeded; but, while admiring the principle at which he aimed, and while cordially recognising in the Siamese potentate the only man before ourselves who had taken a real grasp of the umbrella, we must be allowed to point out how unphilosophically the great man acted in this particular.

    Lay Morals 2005

  • Hipponax, the Greek philosopher; and he is ringing the bell very violently and unphilosophically indeed.

    The Harlequinade An Excursion Harley Granville-Barker 1911

  • From the days of his youth 'freedom', however unphilosophically he might think about it, had connoted for his imagination the highest and holiest interest of mankind; and when he began his first historical work his enthusiasm had not yet been sicklied o'er by the events of the Paris Terror.

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901

  • "What!" said Lord Valleys, growing most unphilosophically red.

    The Patrician John Galsworthy 1900

  • "What!" said Lord Valleys, growing most unphilosophically red.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • The other solvent which Mr. Darwin most freely and, we think, unphilosophically employs to get rid of difficulties, is his use of time.

    Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899

  • My mind has always been completely under my control and well trained, though most unprofitably and unphilosophically employed while I was at school ....

    Memorials of a southern planter, 1887

  • His master Aristotle found fault with nature for treating man in this respect worse than several other animals; both very unphilosophically! and I love Seneca the better for his quarrel with the Stagirite [6] on this head.

    The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II Various 1887

  • From the days of his youth 'freedom', however unphilosophically he might think about it, had connoted for his imagination the highest and holiest interest of mankind; and when he began his first historical work his enthusiasm had not yet been sicklied o'er by the events of the Paris Terror.

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

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