careless

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careless

adj., adv. 1) negligent. 2) the opposite of careful. A careless act can result in liability for damages to others. (See: negligent, negligence, care)

careless

adjective casual, cursory, disregardful, hasty, heedless, hurried, impetuous, improvident, imprudent, impulsive, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, inconsiderate, indifferent, indiscreet, injudicious, irresponsible, lackadaisical, lax, loose, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, oblivious, overhasty, pococurante, precipitant, precipitate, rash, reckless, regardless, remiss, slack, slipshod, sloppy, temerarious, thoughtless, unapprehensive, uncircumspect, unconcerned, unguarded, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, unwary, wasteful
Associated concepts: careless and imprudent manner, careeess and negligent manner, grossly careless, negligence, recklessly careless, standard of care, wantonly careless

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Well, I didn't look, of course," said the stranger with a careless yawn.

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I showed up money enough, in a careless way, to corral the shopkeeper's respect, and then I wrote down a list of the things I wanted, and handed it to him to see if he could read it.

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They were finely and fashionably dressed, their manners were quite superb, and they led an easy, careless, comfortable life.

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He dropped gradually back into his old frivolous and easygoing ways and conditions of feeling and manner of speech, and no familiar of his could have detected anything in him that differentiated him from the weak and careless Tom of other days.

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And you'll say, kind of careless like, as if it warn't anything, you'll say, 'Yes, I got my OLD pipe, and another one, but my tobacker ain't very good.

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Then came the "woodsy bit," with her feet pressing the slippery carpet of brown pine needles; the "woodsy bit" so full of dewy morning, surprises,--fungous growths of brilliant orange and crimson springing up around the stumps of dead trees, beautiful things born in a single night; and now and then the miracle of a little clump of waxen Indian pipes, seen just quickly enough to be saved from her careless tread.

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So scrupulous for others," he continued, "and yet so careless for herself

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You may tell Miss Smith that I forgot to make a memorandum of the darning needles, but she shall have some papers sent in next week; and she is not, on any account, to give out more than one at a time to each pupil: if they have more, they are apt to be careless and lose them.

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No," said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech--"there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by.

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There he felt sure that he could now persuade his parents to let him spend at least a portion of his time upon those African estates which from little careless remarks dropped at home he knew his father possessed.

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This said in a careless tone, Captain Nemo left the saloon.

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We can imagine this bold, careless, impulsive artist, with his moments of great exaltation and alternate depression, a kind of Chinese Paul Verlaine, with his sensitive mind of a child, always recording impressions as they come.