disregardful

Example Sentences

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We passed the Federal barque Urania at her anchorage, and that ship, disregardful of the privateer, sported all her bunting with becoming pluck.

From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael

And even a saint's passion to holiness is hardly stronger, more selfless, more disregardful of conditions and obstacles than the passion of the lover of the beautiful, the connoisseur, toward acquisition.

From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Gibbon, Perceval

Then, she was cold, almost cutting; then she was disregardful, almost contemptuous; but then he had hoped; ah! madman, he had more than hoped.

From The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

"Well hath it been written," replied the Jinnee:— "'Be disregardful of thine affairs, and commit them to the course of Fate, For often a thing that enrages thee may eventually be to thee pleasing.'"

From The Brass Bottle by Anstey, F.

I think he is the soul of the universe, equally cognizant and disregardful of every living thing, to whom I am not more dear than the bare-armed slouchy woman at the neighboring door.

From The Return of the Soldier by West, Rebecca