carelessness

careless | American Dictionary

careless
adjective
us/ˈkeər·ləs/

carelessadjective (WITHOUT ATTENTION)

not using enough care:
Careless drivers cause accidents.
My son’s schoolwork is often careless and sloppy.

carelessly

adverbus/ˈker·lə·sli, ˈkær-/
She carelessly left her purse on the train.

carelessness

noun[ U ]us/ˈker·lə·snəs, ˈkær-/
Carelessness leads to shoddy work.

Examples of careless

careless
Bioethics by media can be a dangerous beast, not for the careless or meek.
What is worse, this careless use of references also occurs in connection with several other issues.
We argue that it violates egalitarian fairness to allow things outside the control of similarly careless actors to determine massively dissimilar liability.
The most glaring weakness is the careless way in which much of this is cobbled together.
The discussion of individual paintings and sculpture is lively but often based on outmoded interpretations or errors derived from careless observation.
Why should language alone be immune to ignorant or careless handling?
The diastematy is occasionally careless, but pitches can be controlled by reference to the northern antiphoners.
There are few significant factual errors, but some careless slips that checking would have revealed.
The book is well produced physically, though sometimes marred by careless copy-editing.
Is this casting the result of a careless later revision?
He feared that provocative or careless behavior might lead to a major explosion.
The seemingly careless title indicates the unusual character of this book.
His scholarship is also on occasion quite insightful, but it is careless of detail, and on some fundamental points it is unexpectedly confused.
He was careless of details and made grand promises on the hoof.
Their underwriting and pricing policy has been so 'broad brush' that the safety conscious and the careless have been treated in very similar ways.
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