recklessly

Example Sentences

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Judge Paul Farrar KC said that he acted recklessly by claiming the waste the company handled was being sent to a legal site near Sheffield.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

The film isn’t trying to absorb or recklessly mirror the traumas of the Black family so much as make a case for its nuance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026

But the city's mayor said the agent who shot Good had acted recklessly.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

It seems that in this era of wellness obsession, of kale salads and Pilates, people who are recklessly hedonistic, who choose pleasure over health, still have a certain kind of glamour.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Surely he didn’t believe what she had just told him about the monkey dæmon, or he wouldn’t walk so recklessly up to the cave.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman