careless
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England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford nearly caused a crash with two other cars during a bout of careless driving in his £200,000 Lamborghini supercar, a court has heard.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
On the merits, even for Mr. Trump, his stand is ignorant, uninformed, profoundly careless.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The OpenAI agents are built for different purposes, but an underappreciated factor in their going hacker mode is that the company’s own staffers were negligent and careless in monitoring their own experiments.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
Beneficiary-designation mistakes are among the most common and costly errors in estate planning, and they happen to careful planners just as often as careless ones.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
The stranger held it careless, as if it weighed no more than a rooster, though even to a horse it would of been heavy as lead.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Vocabulary lists containing careless
Power Suffix: -less
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -less
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