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Example sentences for "carelessness"

Lexicographically close words:
careles; carelesly; careless; carelesse; carelessly; carena; carere; cares; caress; caressed
  1. It is to bridge over the gulf between carelessness and propriety that even mild college tutors will sometimes venture upon a modest "botheration!

  2. But the noblest of their neighbours refused to appear; not from pride, but because of the unsuitableness and carelessness of such a mode.

  3. This explosion was at the time put down as being caused by an act of treachery on the part of Sir Gilbert's soldiers, but subsequently it appears to have been admitted that it was due to the carelessness of the victorious forces.

  4. Then she was further stimulated to carelessness by Mr. Heron's letter.

  5. I have criticised poets' metre, but ever in the broader and larger things where blemish accused them not of ignorance or the carelessness that comes of inattention to rule.

  6. She notes the same carelessness for worldly prosperity, the thoughtlessness for mundane concerns that goes with certain trains of spiritual speculation.

  7. But a certain boyish carelessness of mood he never afterwards quite recovered.

  8. His fastidious, critical habits of work supplied exactly that antidote which Elsmere's main faults of haste and carelessness required.

  9. An unprejudiced critic, if such a one could haply be found, would probably discover an equality of blemish on either side of the ocean--more precision and pedantry on the one side, and a more daring carelessness on the other.

  10. It is because of carelessness or ignorance on this point that composers now sometimes resort to such devices as [music notation] to show that the final tone has four full beats.

  11. But even then a warning ought perhaps to be given the young conductor regarding carelessness or ignorance on the part of singers about some of the most fundamental principles of phrasing.

  12. He belongs to the King, and it will be a bad day's work for the one whose carelessness results in his escape.

  13. He met the ice in the rivers, and suffered much from fatigue and exposure; indeed, the carelessness of Congress was near depriving the country of a life which could not have been spared.

  14. The Chamars justify this carelessness of the fidelity of their wives by the saying, 'If my cow wanders and comes home again, shall I not let her into her stall?

  15. The carelessness of the Bharias in the matter of childbirth is notorious, and it is said that mothers commonly went on working up to the moment of childbirth and were delivered of children in the fields.

  16. Spendthrifts are not exempted from the effects of this rule, and the poverty of the Mexican treasury was due not only to carelessness but also to crime.

  17. It should, of course, be remembered that carelessness about truth, justice and honesty was the shady side of Mexican amiability, and that other nations are not faultless.

  18. With what carelessness I could muster I went after her; as I glanced back into the room I saw that Fanshawe, still raised on his elbow, was looking after me hungrily.

  19. To suppose that they were driven into cannibalism by over-population and the lack of food, is to exhibit a singular carelessness in reasoning.

  20. After what has been said, it seems to me scarcely necessary to spend many words in dispelling the fear that frivolity or carelessness in the treatment of the means of production will result from a modified form of property.

  21. And as to the fear lest carelessness in the treatment of the means of production should prevail, this fear could have been justified only if in the former system the workers were owners of the means of production.

  22. There was even, he averred, an element of spirituality in the gambler's carelessness about money.

  23. Yes, you wore courage as you wore your youth With carelessness and joy.

  24. Your hot blood taught you carelessness of death With every breath.

  25. This I will leave, and will now only place on record some of the cruelties perpetrated upon books by the ignorance or carelessness of binders.

  26. Who of us who has witnessed the agonies of the little dying child-mother can ever for a moment think with carelessness or indifference of the awful custom of child marriage?

  27. Utter carelessness or ignorance of the first principles of cleanliness is responsible for much ill-health and death.

  28. When the cause came on, so many circumstances were brought in mitigation of damages, to prove my utter carelessness respecting my wife's conduct, that a suspicion of collusion arose.

  29. This wasteful ratio is principally due to the carelessness or ignorance of the firms that send them out-- ignorance of the little touches that make all the difference between a personal and a "form letter.

  30. The carelessness that sends out to women form letters beginning "Dear Sir" has squandered many an advertising appropriation.

  31. They will learn our laws, and learn our Constitution, and learn our customs ten times quicker when the responsibility of knowing these things is laid upon them, than when they are permitted to live in carelessness respecting them.

  32. The public was still further wrong when it attributed misapprehension and carelessness to a woman whom it very well knew to be incapable of either.

  33. He saw how it led to open disobedience and carelessness in some, and to hypocritical pretence in others; and therefore he meant to guard against these faults by making his rule milder than those of the East.

  34. Though their machinery may be perfect, and their organization as complete as skill and forethought can make it, workmen will at times be forgetful and listless, and a moment's carelessness may lead to the most disastrous results.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carelessness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.