recklessness

reckless | American Dictionary

reckless
adjective
us/ˈrek·ləs/
showing a lack of care about risks or danger, and acting without thinking about the results of your actions:
These punks have a reckless disregard for the law.
He pleaded innocent to reckless driving charges.

recklessly

adverbus/ˈrek·ləs·li/
She spends her money recklessly.

recklessness

noun[ U ]us/ˈrek·ləs·nəs/
The accident was a result of recklessness.

reckless | Business English

reckless
adjective
uk /ˈrekləs/us
taking risks and not caring about the possible dangers:
They made increasingly reckless investments.
reckless borrowing/lending/spendingThe government wants to crack down on decades of reckless lending by banks to unprofitable companies.

Examples of reckless

reckless
Is punishment for attempts at crime or for reckless behavior illegitimate?
It was entirely in keeping with his outlook that he should have approached overseas enterprise in an almost reckless frame of mind.
Unfortunately, some of the functions seem to be written with a fairly reckless disregard for efficiency.
Reckless self-expression is here coterminous not just with the surrender of the throne, but with spiritual death.
They are full of factual errors, gross generalisations and reckless assumptions.
Any of these individual violations may be deemed routine, reasoned, reckless or malicious.
Reckless inclusion of ontology elements from the source ontologies (even when homogeneous) is likely to lead to a problematic, invalid, contradictory, incoherent or inconsistent ontology.
However, this principle required more flexibility in the post-cold war era when many reckless and even brutal belligerent factions fought each other in anarchy.
For any cautious scholar, this kind of speculating appears reckless.
It would have been politically reckless simply to end the state programme without honouring claims already earned.
But we would be reckless to assume that even so royalist a form as the masque contains nothing but pure sycophancy.
The combination of reckless lending, deteriorating business conditions, and ballooning foreign debt obligations was devastating.
She squandered her earnings with the most reckless profusion, and quarrelled with her best friends from the ungovernable petulance of her temper.
There's no reason to tolerate wreckless driving in place of reckless driving.
First, people are prone to assent to reckless and dangerous undertakings.
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