Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not heeding; careless; negligent; heedless.
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disregard
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- adjective marked by or paying little heed or attention
Etymologies
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Examples
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He went all unheeding of Jerry, who padded softly at his heels until the companionway was reached.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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One of them turned up an unheeding, terrified face.
CHAPTER 24 2010
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He stood there dazed and unheeding, his bonny brown hair rumpled down his forehead, his face haggard and careworn and boyish still.
SUICIDE 2010
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A few paces farther on the dogs were again put against the steep, and with whine and shout and clatter the unheeding clay was hauled on and upward to its ice-hewn hillside chamber.
CHAPTER 14 2010
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Fascinated by the five-inch stream, sluiced out of the earth and back to the earth by the droning motor, he forgot his discourse and stood and gazed, rapt and unheeding, while his visitors drove on.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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If one man could be so monstrously treated and society move on its way unheeding, might not many men be so monstrously treated?
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A thousand dogs, in pitiful chorus, wailed their ancient wrongs and claimed mercy from the unheeding stars.
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They are clad in ancient grandeur, but the world, unheeding, sleeps.
Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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The boy, dazed and unheeding, passed out with the jailer.
SUICIDE 2010
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A thousand dogs, in pitiful chorus, wailed their ancient wrongs and claimed mercy from the unheeding stars.
THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010
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