Word Finder - reckless

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Careless or heedless; headstrong or rash.

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Indifferent to danger or the consequences.

The first to explore any portion of the mighty river was the reckless and daring adventurer Ordaz.

Now began a period of hasty measures and reckless decrees.

Distress made him, not servile, but reckless and ungovernable.

He was magnificent - and reckless.

Reckless talk in public places led to the arrest of the conspirators.

In all matters of government, Andrew was equally reckless and haphazard.

One reckless investigation gives all paranormal investigators a bad reputation.

These people showed, to their own ruin, a reckless liking for the brandy of the white man.

Like anti-Semites elsewhere, the Christian Socialists were reckless and irresponsible, appealing directly to the passions and prejudices of the most ignorant.

The king, reckless as he was, had more than his share of the Stuart melancholy.

Their capacity for wrongdoing, especially under Sylvia's reckless leadership, was apparently limitless.

A party that will be prudent, not reckless.

Berserk was famed for the reckless fury with which he fought, always going into battle without armour.

But their reckless leader escaped, and for three years led the life of an outlaw, till in 1417 he was finally captured, still in arms, and sent to the stake.

The alternative – that Death might see Rhyn as a viable leader for the Council – was inconceivable.  No self-serving, reckless, half-evil being could be entrusted with the fate of humanity!  Baffled by the deity's bizarre visit, Kris pushed the memories out of his mind.  He had to find Rhyn.  He picked up his rucksack and joined Kiki outside the tent.  Kiki stood before a portal on the dark beach.

There's a difference between free will and having the deck stacked against you.  Humans need someone to protect them from these reckless Immortals, not to mention the demons.

In order to prevent the destruction of the human world, she'd taken an aggressive, borderline reckless, course of action.

The sole immortal able to disable Others and Watchers, the Grey God – Darian – was known for being fearless to the point of reckless.

Feeling reckless and trapped by her circumstances, Jessi didn't wait for him.

These results reveal either a surprising ignorance by caterers of what they are producing or a reckless disregard for what constitutes a healthy meal.

Of course, Soames, a former equerry to Prince Charles, has also spoken out against spiteful and reckless attacks on minorities.

Chicken people need more foresight, and, due to their basic reckless and erratic nature, they seesaw between being rich and poor.

To assume this regime's good faith is to bet the lives of millions and the peace of the world in a reckless gamble.

Every traffic interaction at junctions will be optimized, eliminating hesitation, reckless joining of the flow, and bad timing.

In an almost reckless hurry, the Iranians had skipped many of the intermediate testing steps.

Let's face it, it would have been a little reckless to go out in old boots.

It is wrong and even reckless to blindly imitate the west in everything.

It was very reckless to go bail in this way.

Don't be reckless with other people's vehicles, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours ' .

Don't be reckless with other people 's SRT kits, don't put up with people who are reckless with other people 's SRT kits, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

She becomes reckless through force of circumstances that are outside her control.

The economic development of Uruguay was retarded by the corruption of successive governments, by revolutionary outbreaks, by the seizure of farm stock, without adequate compensation, for the support of military forces, by the consequences of reckless borrowing and over-trading in 1889 and 1890, and also by the transference of commercial undertakings from Montevideo to Buenos Aires between 1890 and 1897, on the opening of the harbour and docks at that port.

In action his reckless bravery had earned him rebuke, and in Paris he was remarked for the exact performance of his military duties, though he found time to whet his appetite for art in the matchless collections gathered by Napoleon as the spoil of all Europe.

Climate change, pollution and reckless energy consumption, all remain important concerns.

As a result of her low self-esteem, she has reckless sex and ends up pregnant.

I grow reckless like that when I want a thing and can't get it.

Now he has embarked on an ambitious, some would say reckless, TV project.

Nations get reckless about God and reckless about themselves.

Armindo Gomes, 67, was charged with second-degree assault, breach of peace and second-degree assault, breach of peace and second-degree reckless endangerment.

The foreign policy of Athens was now directed towards an almost reckless expansion (see Pericles).

After escaping from the chains of his passion for the beautiful but reckless Mrs Woffington, Garrick had in 1749 married Mademoiselle Violette (Eva Maria Veigel), a German lady who had attracted admiration at Florence or at Vienna as a dancer, and had come to England early in 1746, where her modest grace and the rumours which surrounded her created a furore, and where she found enthusiastic patrons in the earl and countess of Burlington.

In all his life nothing became him so well as his manner of leaving it; but the fortitude he then showed, even if it was not merely the courage of despair, cannot blind us to the fact that he was little better than a reckless and vicious spendthrift, who was not the less dangerous because his fiercer passions were concealed beneath an affectation of effeminate dandyism.

In 1787 all the states but three had bicameral legislatures-it was therefore natural that the new national government should follow this example, not to add that the division into two branches seems calculated to reduce the chances of reckless haste, and to increase the chances of finding wisdom in a multitude of counsellors.

The process of reckless deforestation is perceptible in certain districts, the natives often destroying a whole tree for a plank or rafter.

It was won by the generalship of Bruce and his captains; by the excellence of his position, by the steadiness of his men, and, obviously, by the reckless fury of the English cavalry, and by the folly which left their archers open to defeat by the Marischal's handful of horse (24th of June 1314).

Lauderdale having married the rapacious countess of Dysart, corruption was rife; his brother, Haltoun, was an example of reckless greed; opposition arose to a scheme of union, presently dropped, and by 1673 the duke of Hamilton and Sir George Mackenzie led an organized political opposition.

He destroyed the sympathy between the people and their natural leaders; and he threw the former into the hands of men who have subordinated all national to ecclesiastical considerations, or into the hands of reckless, ignorant, and dishonest adventurers."

Later Sadducees, who actually bore the name, resisted this and all the characteristics of the Pharisees and continued to flatter the predominant foreigner - Greek or Roman - by imitating him with less reckless bravado than the first Hellenizers and with growing assurance.

In spite of slight physique and a dissolute life, his reckless courage and ambition brought him into prominence in the war against the Italians in Tripoli; he was made aide-de-camp to Wahid-ed-din, afterwards the Sultan Mohammed VI.

The reckless system of outdoor relief, which had pauperized whole neighborhoods, was abolished, and the system of unions and workhouses established (see Poon LAW).