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careless
adjective as in without sufficient attention
Strongest matches
casual, forgetful, hasty, inaccurate, indifferent, indiscreet, irresponsible, lackadaisical, lax, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, sloppy, thoughtless, wasteful
Weak matches
absent-minded, abstracted, cursory, disregardful, heedless, improvident, imprudent, inadvertent, incautious, inconsiderate, indolent, injudicious, loose, mindless, napping, oblivious, offhand, perfunctory, pococurante, regardless, remiss, slipshod, uncircumspect, unconcerned, unguarded, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unreflective, unthinking
Example Sentences
It was not "careless or accidental" but part of a strategy to "draw a dividing line between elites and the people", he added.
The van driver, Christopher Hicks from St Neots in Cambridgeshire, was convicted of causing death by careless driving, but a drug test, which was positive, was only carried out the day after the crash.
"Someone in the Revenue now with the whole glare of the UK's media on them is going to make a decision as to whether Rayner was careless," he said.
In the Premier League rulebook, a "careless challenge" is deemed one with a "lack of attention or consideration when making a challenge or acts without precaution".
Harte was given a 17-month suspended sentence in February this year after he pleaded guilty to careless driving causing death.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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