1
as in carelessness
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as in insensitivity
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thoughtlessness
Noun
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Many of Combs' former colleagues have spoken out about his personal and professional indiscretions since his arrest.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
28 July 2025 -
Peters and Antoon captured all of the indiscretions on video for their client, while Crooks witnessed the P.I. Moms in action for his feature article.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
23 July 2025
Noun
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There are blatantly far-fetched thrillers, brilliant ones, that haunt us for decades in spite of their narrative inelegance or the quality of their gotchas.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Sep. 2022
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Keeping the battery charged avoids this morsel of powertrain inelegance.—
Derek Powell,
Car and Driver,
19 Jan. 2022
Noun
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The fragrance’s starting point was the consumer — especially Gen Zers, who are partial to a deep form of insouciance, with a liberating irreverence, market insights show.—
Jennifer Weil,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
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With her typical insouciance, however, Jones ignored the advice and went on with the show.—
Time,
Time,
10 July 2025
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Other college football coaches often gesture at this hierarchy; Swinney conveys it with an evangelist’s zeal.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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Such collaboration isn’t new, but former NOAA officials worry that the current administration, with its zeal for privatization, will jettison core federal observing systems and rely instead on private sector data to forecast the weather.—
Meg Wilcox,
Wired News,
9 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Significance is met with distress, exuberance bleeds into impatience, longing is blurred with desperation.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
16 Aug. 2025
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But for now, at least, its sheer exuberance keeps all the try-hard naughtiness from feeling excessively self-satisfied.—
Megan Cartwright,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Thoughtlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thoughtlessness. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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