as in careless
not paying or showing close attention especially for the purpose of avoiding trouble
heedless drivers who back out of parking spaces without looking
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Recent Examples of heedless
My headlong descent had much more to do with a willful and heedless pursuit of hedonism.
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Rachel Desantis, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
To this day, heedless shootings at parades are not unheard of in the Big Easy.
—Maurice Carlos Ruffin, TIME, 3 Jan. 2025
The gunman raised the weapon, heedless of a woman standing nearby on the sidewalk.
—Maria Cramer, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Phishing sites are fraudulent pages that ape secure sites and try to fool heedless visitors into giving away their credentials.
—PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
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Rachel Desantis, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
To this day, heedless shootings at parades are not unheard of in the Big Easy.
—Maurice Carlos Ruffin, TIME, 3 Jan. 2025
The gunman raised the weapon, heedless of a woman standing nearby on the sidewalk.
—Maria Cramer, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Phishing sites are fraudulent pages that ape secure sites and try to fool heedless visitors into giving away their credentials.
—PCMAG, 27 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heedless
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The Heat committed 14 turnovers, several of them particularly careless, and shot just 9 for 37 (24.3 percent) on threes.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
16 Mar. 2025
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Nests are usually placed on a horizontal conifer branch less than 10 feet above the ground, which makes sense, given the careless, rickety appearance of their design.—
Matt Kracht,
People.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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Deeming Starliner unsafe for return, NASA ordered it to fly back empty last September and moved Wilmore and Williams to a SpaceX flight originally scheduled for February.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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Alcohol is dehydrating, can negatively impact the immune system, and can be unsafe with cold medications.1 There is no cure for the common cold, but there are better supportive measures than whiskey to help provide relief.—
Amelia MacIntyre,
Verywell Health,
14 Mar. 2025
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She was arrested and charged with assault in the first degree, kidnapping in the second degree, unlawful restraint in the first degree, cruelty to persons and reckless endangerment in the first degree on March 12.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
15 Mar. 2025
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In January a Bronx jury found Officer Kenneth Hood, 38, guilty of reckless endangerment and official misconduct for the incident in the George R. Vierno Center on Nov. 27, 2019, which left 18-year-old Nicholas Feliciano paralyzed.—
Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
15 Mar. 2025
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“Heedless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heedless. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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