Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being careless; heedlessness; inattention; negligence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligence; inattention.
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- noun
Lack ofcare .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
- noun the quality of not being careful or taking pains
Etymologies
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Examples
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Oh apologizes for Green Beret 'confusion or misimpression' City Council candidate David Oh issued a formal apology Thursday for what he described as carelessness in describing his five-year stint in the Army National Guard - an issue that led some veterans to complain he was embellishing his military record.
Phillies Zone 2011
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M. de Maupeou came to me in December, and after having gently scolded me for what he termed my carelessness, he showed me a letter from the duchesse de Grammont, which, he said, would wonderfully aid our plans.
Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself Etienne-L��on Lamothe-Langon 1825
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Wouldn't an ideal solution be to have a free-market, capitalist society WITH some level of government overview to ensure that corruption and carelessness is kept to a minimum?
State of the Union: Powell 'concerned' about Obama's agenda 2009
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All of these manifestations can give the impression of a certain carelessness with regard to the liturgy and should be avoided.
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If the failure to file over ten months or so was due to carelessness, is this an organization that should be "certifying" complex information systems upon which lives depend?
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Coupled with the poor writing is a certain carelessness in the story development: early on, for example, we learn of the high-tech processes Space Vulture uses to make himself superhuman.
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Such carelessness is unforgivable from a NATO hopeful.
Georgia Takes a Beating in the Cyberwar With Russia - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Coupled with the poor writing is a certain carelessness in the story development: early on, for example, we learn of the high-tech processes Space Vulture uses to make himself superhuman.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Have already occurred (Night vii.) but such carelessness is characteristic despite the proverb, “In repetition is no fruition.”
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If she had been an ugly woman, one would not have cared so much, though it would have been provoking; but for a handsome creature like her to have her beauty put in peril by such an atrocious piece of carelessness is something to make one's blood boil!
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892
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