Word Finder - careless

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Not concerned or worried (about).

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Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes.

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Jessica was so careless that she put her shorts on backwards.

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Free from care; unworried, without anxiety.

You're careful about everyone else, but careless about your own safety.

The loss resulting from careless work is very serious.

He had been the target of constant attack during his life, and his personal foibles, careless dress and mental eccentricities were the theme of endless ridicule.

However, we knew a careless word overheard could spell our doom.

I hope that I shall never do anything to make them careless of their duties.

He considered it his duty to expose careless and ignorant writers, and certainly enjoyed doing so.

Ed had suffered needlessly for hours because she had done something careless – after promising she wouldn't.

Alex would have scolded her for being so careless.

In Assam and in upper Burma there are extensive forests of Ficus elastica, but to a large extent the trees have been damaged by careless tapping.

Africa, can, however, only be enforced by special administrative machinery and at considerable expense, and this legislative action can only be regarded as temporary and preliminary to the establishment of plantations of rubber trees, which are not only easier to control, but the trees are less liable to injury from careless tapping.

If you get close enough, sooner or later someone gets careless.

It was a young man's—or woman's—game, although Dean doubted he'd have joined the contest, at least not willingly, even in his careless years.

It might also warn you to be cautious rather than careless.

Accidents from the misuse and careless handling of explosives are unfortunately too frequent in mines.

The chivalry of France, undisciplined and careless of the lesson of Crecy and Poitiers, was quickly stung into action, and the French mounted men charged, only to be driven back in confusion.

The census figures relate to the calendar year preceding 1st June 1900, and hurried and careless answers about the preceding year's crop are almost sure to have been given by many farmers in the midst of the summer's work.

This was hardly done, however, before the panic of 1837 wiped out a large portion of the banks' assets; next came revelations of grossly careless and even of corrupt management, and in 1843 the banks were placed in liquidation.

Why don't you prevent him, you little careless creature?

Without changing his careless attitude, Pierre looked at them over his spectacles unable to understand what they wanted or how they could go on living without having solved the problems that so absorbed him.

Terence justifies this practice by that of the older poets, Naevius, Plautus, Ennius, whose careless freedom he follows in preference to the "obscura diligentia" of his detractor.

This supposition would compel us to believe either that the skilful writer of Acts was so careless as to incorporate a document without altering its form, or that " we " is introduced intentionally.

Once a little fish swam too near the surface, and the kitten grabbed it in her mouth and ate it up as quick as a wink; but Dorothy cautioned her to be careful what she ate in this valley of enchantments, and no more fishes were careless enough to swim within reach.

She brought into Princess Mary's strenuous, mournful, and gloomy world a quite different atmosphere, careless, lighthearted, and self-satisfied.

They'd like to search the LeBlanc's place on the off chance our boy broke in there too and maybe got careless.

After the captivity and death of Valerian, Gallienus succeeded to a merely nominal rule in the East, and was too careless and self-indulgent to take any active measures to recover the lost provinces.

Owing to complaints of the careless packing of American cotton, attention has been devoted of late to the improvement of the square bale.

The graphic descriptions of Hungarian life in the middle and lower classes by Lewis Kuthy won for him temporary renown; but his style, though flowery, is careless.

He admits that his quotations are not always exact, but asserts that this was the fault of careless copyists.

He had observed the great men of both parties in hours of careless relaxation, had seen the leaders of opposition without the mask of patriotism, and had heard the prime minister roar with laughter and tell stories not over-decent.

The rock inscriptions in the wild district of Safah near Damascus which have been collected by Halevy are also written in an Arabic dialect, but, owing chiefly to their careless execution, they are to a large extent unintelligible.

Barisch was shown to have been careless in the performance of his duties, and to have disregarded instructions; and the inference is that he conveyed the infection to his mouth, and so to the lungs, from the bacteriological specimens or inoculated animals.

When persons live crowded together in close contact, and when they are careless with regard to discharges of all kinds from patients, the risk is obviously much increased.

Indeed, perhaps in these times a belief in the ETH would be somehow dangerous, making us too careless of our own survival.

To avoid careless mistakes, read the application two or three times before you begin writing.

Typos imply that you're sloppy, careless, or simply have a poor grasp of the English language.

They are also quick to lose their tempers and are often selfish and careless.

Regardless of the type of ruler you purchase, however, you should always get in the habit of double-checking your measurements to avoid careless mistakes.

Their break-up was exceedingly ugly but they released some of the most definitive 80s hits, including Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go and Careless Whisper.

The tea trade of Wen-chow-Fu, formerly important, has declined owing to careless cultivation.

The authorities at Ottawa were at first careless or sceptical in regard to the danger, the reality of which was only brought home to them when a body of mounted police, advancing to regain a small post at Duck Lake, of which the rebels had taken possession, was attacked and twelve of their number killed.

He seems to have been a man of great business capacity, gay and careless in temperament, and thoroughly unscrupulous in political action.

Harris is followed by Harnack and others in supposing that it was only through a careless reading of this inscription that the work was supposed to have been addressed to Hadrian.

Linseed is subject to extensive and detrimental adulterations, resulting not only from careless harvesting and cleaning, whereby seeds of the flax dodder, and other weeds and grasses are mixed with it, but also from the direct admixture of cheaper and inferior oil-seeds, such as wild rape, mustard, sesame, poppy, &c., the latter adulterations being known in trade under the generic name of " buffum."

And the consequence of this atomism is not what a careless thinker might be led to assume, extreme diversity, but, on the contrary, extreme homogeneity of culture.

But his contempt for the annalistic form makes him at times careless in his chronology and arbitrary in his method of arranging his material; he not infrequently flies off at a tangent to relate stories which have little or no connexion with the main narrative; his critical faculty is too often allowed to lie dormant.

The dominating ambition of his life was to achieve fame, but though that sometimes betrayed him into petty jealousy, it did not leave him insensible to the claims on his knowledge of the "cause of humanity," to use a phrase often employed by him in connexion with his invention of the miners' lamp. Of the smaller observances of etiquette he was careless, and his frankness of disposition sometimes exposed him to annoyances which he might have avoided by the exercise of ordinary tact.

It was perhaps by a somewhat careless transference of ideas that this extension was brought about.

The book is probably not therefore a number of parts of different origin thrown loosely together by a careless editor, who does not deserve the title of author.

It was preached to a congregation who were careless and loose in their lives at a time when " the neighbouring towns were in great distress for their souls."

Owing to increased competition, and in some degree to careless harvesting, there was a great fall in prices after 1900, and the Seychellois, though still producing vanilla in large quantities, paid greater attention to the products of the coconut palm - copra, soap, coco-nut oil and coco-nuts - to the development of the mangrove bark industry, the collection of guano, the cultivation of rubber trees, the preparation of banana flour, the growing of sugar canes, and the distillation of rum and essential oils.