careless
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In her closing remarks, Halem’s attorney Megan Maitia blasted the LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division and the district attorney’s office for what she called a “lazy, careless investigation.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026
Kevin Miller, 71, of Gayton Road, King's Lynn, Norfolk, admitted causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving at a hearing in Peterborough Crown Court, officials said.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026
Like, just in case someone’s dawdling, or being careless about where they’re dumping snow.
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026
This evidently isn’t the first time he has been careless about a matter that touches her soul.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
As I stood in this state of indecision, there was a dry crack of wood and a careless disturbance of undergrowth perhaps fifty feet into the woods—something good-sized and unseen.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing careless
Power Suffix: -less
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -less
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