Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a heedless manner; carelessly; negligently; inattentively.

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  • adverb In a heedless manner.

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  • adverb without care or concern

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Examples

  • In a globalised world when governments badly need to win the confidence of international exchange markets, the idea of heedlessly borrowing and spending your way out of recession is as outdated as the films of George Formby and Gracie Fields.

    This is Money | Home 2008

  • No, after only five lines, this coal front group  was back on the attack against -- not reckless mining practices -- but the Environmental Protection Agency, for "heedlessly" seeking to stop water pollution caused by mountaintop-removal mining.

    Climate Denial -- or Just Plain Evil? 2010

  • At first Panayev used to write very often and assure me he would not act "heedlessly," underlining this word, but he is subdued now and keeps silent like a child who has misbehaved at mealtime.

    Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood 1906

  • Tell me, Moisheh, how many "Red Necked Americans" spewing anti-semitic filth have you encountered in your town or travels that are of sufficient number to warrant your disparaging an entire substrata of U.S. culture so heedlessly.

    Page 2 2010

  • He pushed out into the gale and sped heedlessly down the treacherous terrain.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • Here were Christian armies who heedlessly slaughtered entire populations, not in spite of their religion but because of it.

    Jay Rubenstein: Crusade vs. Jihad: Which Is Worse? Jay Rubenstein 2011

  • Here were Christian armies who heedlessly slaughtered entire populations, not in spite of their religion but because of it.

    Jay Rubenstein: Crusade vs. Jihad: Which Is Worse? Jay Rubenstein 2011

  • We fear unlikely events yet rush heedlessly into obvious risks.

    The Best Nonfiction of 2011 2011

  • Here were Christian armies who heedlessly slaughtered entire populations, not in spite of their religion but because of it.

    Jay Rubenstein: Crusade vs. Jihad: Which Is Worse? Jay Rubenstein 2011

  • Tell me, Moisheh, how many "Red Necked Americans" spewing anti-semitic filth have you encountered in your town or travels that are of sufficient number to warrant your disparaging an entire substrata of U.S. culture so heedlessly.

    Page 2 2010

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