Example sentences for: uncritically

How can you use “uncritically” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There is no Yiddish word “genzel” or “gantzel,” which Smith has copied, uncritically, from others.

  • Amazon.com calls itself "Earth's Biggest Bookstore," and the media, online and off, have accepted that claim uncritically.

  • The much-touted 30 page cover piece ("Pressgate") carefully reconstructs coverage of the Lewinsky scandal, congratulating a few responsible reporters and tsk-tsking almost everybody else for uncritically accepting Kenneth Starr's leaks.

  • One of her more comical tics is to repeat a concept over and over, uncritically, until it takes on an almost physical presence, like a parody of a Platonic ideal.

  • There is also a Bibliography of sorts: the OED was, but the OED2e was not consulted; Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable was, perhaps somewhat uncritically; and, among works that either fail to reflect the latest scholarship, are not pertinent to the task set, or are just plain awful, the following are listed: Wilfred Funk's Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories , (a 1978 reprint of a 1950 work); Universal Dictionary of the English Language (1897); a modern selection from Johnson's Dictionary (1755); Partridge's Origins (1977), a work long criticized for its errors; and Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language (1965), which is a $15 reprint, cursorily updated, of the 19th-century Ogilvie edition of Annandale's Dictionary .


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