Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a reckless manner; with rash or desperate heedlessness.
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- adverb In a
reckless manner, withoutregard for cost orconsequence . - adverb With
contempt for therights ,feelings , orwell -being of others.
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- adverb in a reckless manner
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Examples
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He is clear that rugby must not follow football in recklessly speculating in the hope of reaping future rewards.
England can win 2015 World Cup, says RFU chief executive John Steele Owen Gibson 2010
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Uninitiated, they devalue history rather than find direction in it, and feel entitled to break sharply and even recklessly from the past.
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Uninitiated, they devalue history rather than find direction in it, and feel entitled to break sharply and even recklessly from the past.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Protester Disrupts Bolton Hearing 2006
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Heyricke -- he spelled his name recklessly -- had five sons, the second of which sought a career in London, where he became a goldsmith, and in
Ponkapog Papers Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871
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I don't like to use the h-word recklessly, but I would admit to feeling jolly these days, and I have a reason:
Alfred Gingold: WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT? Alfred Gingold 2010
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"I'd promise _you_ anything," said Skippy recklessly, which is the privilege of sixteen in the presence of twenty-five.
Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World Owen Johnson 1915
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The plume of his bonnet was broken, but he wore it in a rakish fashion; and altogether he swaggered with so dare-devil an air, clinking his spurs and swinging out his long sword recklessly, that it was no wonder three or four of the nearest fellows gave back a foot.
The House of the Wolf; a romance Stanley John Weyman 1891
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It will show, too, the moderation of my part in these affairs, a thing which some have called recklessly in question.
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Mr. Riley said Mr. King, a fellow Republican, "recklessly" derailed negotiations with BP by filing a lawsuit last month against the oil giant.
Spill Payments Irk Alabama Business Mike Esterl 2010
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After an awkward campaign in which he shied away from Virginia voters and their parochial issues, and after he snubbed President George W. Bush at a White House reception and accused him of taking the country into Iraq "recklessly," there was more than a little unease about how Jim Webb would fit into the Senate.
Webb's decision to retire surprises few who know him best Christian Davenport 2011
BrainyBabe commented on the word recklessly
"I can't do two things at once," muttered Mr Otchkinson, recklessly snatching his left hand from the wheel to make sure that the hand-brake was still where it ought to be. - ''Yashima, or, The Gorgeous West'' by R T Sherwood, 1931.
December 24, 2008