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Careless

adjective

Marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful. "Forgotten by some careless person" , "A careless housekeeper" , "Careless proofreading" , "It was a careless mistake" , "Hurt by a careless remark"

Effortless and unstudied. "Danced with careless grace"

(usually followed by 'of') without due thought or consideration. Synonym: regardless. "Crushing the blooms with regardless tread"

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"Careless" Quotes from Famous Books

... beautiful young willow that had grown at the edge of a stream, exquisite, slender, strong. He could have picked her up in his arms as easily as a child, yet he sensed in the lithe beauty of her body forces that could endure magnificently. The careless poise of her head fascinated him. For that head and the hair that crowned it he knew that half the women of the earth would have traded precious years of ...

— The Valley of Silent Men • James Oliver Curwood

... was strange our meeting on the frontier in peace and then in war!" she exclaimed at random. The sound of the remark struck her as too subdued; as expectant, when her purpose was one of careless deprecation. ...

— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer

... Vassie, she was occupied with wondering whether the passionate yet careless caresses that Killigrew had lavished on her that afternoon "meant anything" or not. He had told her that in France they always said that "love was an affair of the skin...." And she knew she had a perfect skin. Killigrew had told ...

— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse

... of race, color, and hereditary servitude, as proud as the proudest Austrian with his endless quarterings, as sturdy and vigorous as an English yeoman, and as jealous of his rights and privileges as any baron who stood by John at Runnymede. To this aristocracy, careless and indolent, given to rough pleasures and indifferent to the finer and higher sides of life, the call came, as it comes to all men sooner or later, and in response they gave their country soldiers, statesmen, and jurists of the ...

— George Washington, Vol. I • Henry Cabot Lodge

... noticed a young fellow standing before the plain wooden counter with a cake of gingerbread in one hand and a glass of milk in the other. His profile was before me; I at once recognized the long lashes. But the happy, boyish, careless laugh that greeted Bracy, as he presented ...

— The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories • Bret Harte

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