carelessness
大意,粗心大意,疏忽大意,粗心
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Definitions
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- : not paying enough attention to what one does: a careless typist.
- : not exact, accurate, or thorough: careless work.
- : done or said heedlessly or negligently; unconsidered: a careless remark.
- : not caring or troubling; having no care or concern; unconcerned: careless of the rights of others; careless about one's behavior; careless in speech.
- : possessed or caused without effort or art; unstudied: careless beauty.
- : Archaic. free from anxiety.
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Examples
Forwards make careless passes, and defensemen make mistakes that put their goalie in a tough spot.
Stop careless habits, such as leaving the dishwasher door open.
On the other end of the floor, Virginia was uncharacteristically careless as it committed 10 turnovers, including on each of its first three possessions.
I’m grateful that I was able to shed even a little bit of light on how careless authorities were with the lives of people in their custody.
One must not take the fact that there is a vaccine a few months away as an indication to be careless with measures.
“The most frustrating part of this crematorium here is the carelessness of the Ebola team,” says Reeves.
Her jauntiness and carefree attitude appeals to him; the negative side is her carelessness.
There is no excuse for my carelessness in handling this situation, nor my stubbornness in delaying acknowledgment of my errors.
On the one hand, he was furious at the carelessness of it all; on the other, he felt sorry for the man.
And many of them can be attributed to a certain nonchalance or carelessness.
But they have not the invincible carelessness or temperamental springiness of the old lot—and how should they?
Certainly he had chosen a singular hiding-place, and never did man treat such a treasure with such apparent carelessness.