(1) On Wednesday, the ire of the marchers was focused on all those Lib Dems who blithely signed the NUS's anti-fees pledge ("I pledge to vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative" – yesterday, Nick Clegg limply said that he "should have been more careful" than to put his name to it).
(2) Instead, the spending review blithely asserted "couples with children must work 24 hours per week between them" in order to get a credit that is worth up to an annual maximum of £3,870.
(3) Last month, for example, the Daily Telegraph's Peter Oborne bemoaned their "devastating" fate, in a piece worth quoting at reasonable length, if only to prove that the idea of an out-of-touch elite blithely wreaking havoc is not the preserve of hard-bitten lefties.
(4) This is why, you see, people with rucksacks pummel all those in their immediate vicinity with their giant sacks as they trundle on their way, whacking them about as they blithely move about trains, pavements or any other public area.
(5) These films were a blithe rebuttal of the critic Edward Said’s insight that, in a novel like Mansfield Park, the “English” story necessarily concealed the story, located elsewhere but inextricable from the main narrative, of a West Indian sugar plantation.
(6) Click here for the Magic in the Moonlight trailer Compared with the gloomy ruminations on ageing and aspiration that characterised the well-received Blue Jasmine, which won Cate Blanchett an Oscar , this is Allen going back to the knockabout farce and blithe May-December couplings that populate his lighter films.
(7) This narrative is a form of manufacture of innocence to mask a great crime: what your script blithely calls "the detainee program".
(8) Here lies our greatest risk, one insufficiently appreciated by those who so blithely accept the tentacles of corporation, press and state insinuating their way into the private sphere.
(9) When he arrived at the venue and was confronted by a motley horde of fans, tipped off by a tweet, instead of sidling in the back to pace about alone in a corridor, like a normal human would, Fry blithely faced the crowd, chatting and signing autographs.
(10) She says she "naively stumbled into the campaign", starting the petition on Change.org, which she found through a Google search, and setting her target at a blithely optimistic 1m signatures.
(11) I have a concern that there are too many of them – and most will gather dust on shelves, and hospitals will go blithely on as they always have.
(12) But they blithely ignore the fact that wealth isn't being created under the existing broken economic model.
(13) Mr Osborne can hardly not know this, but he continues blithely to define living within our means as a government challenge, rather than a wider challenge to the entire public and private sector.
(14) Yes, when we all had the blithe assumption that houses would always rise in value, that bankers were always going to get £3m bonuses.
(15) In a fascinating recent article the economist Tyler Cowen pointed out the problem with blithe assumptions about a better future – they miss out on the history of what actually happened in the great industrial transformations of the past.
(16) Phone jammed to her ear, laptop open on her knee, she was blithely conducting a conference call while wearing highlighter foils.
(17) The original sin of the euro-enthusiasts was to settle the politics first and then blithely assume that the economics would sort themselves out.
(18) This distinction, popularised by Michael Ignatieff in the mid-1990s, has received much debate, which Bragg blithely ignores.
(19) It’s just interesting that home advantage – the chance to build a rapport with local audiences; familiarity with local culture, etc – is being blithely squandered.
(20) But clearly there is a difference between blithely hurtling into catastrophe and trying to lead a party away from it.
Careless
Definition:
(a.) Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted.
(a.) Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless.
(a.) Without thought or purpose; without due care; without attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate; spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression.
(a.) Not receiving care; uncared for.
Example Sentences:
(1) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(2) Failure to check, lack of vigilance and inattention or carelessness were the most frequently associated factors with the rest of the reports.
(3) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
(4) "In this era where we see growing open-mindedness, his actions are muddle-headed and careless," said the letter, which was briefly posted to the internet before it was taken down by censors .
(5) Vardy has plenty of other qualities, however, and he played a key role in Leicester’s equaliser early in the second half, racing clear on the right after Wanyama’s careless header and crossing for Musa, who forced the ball past Hugo Lloris at the far post.
(6) His carelessness had returned the ball to City's opponents inside his own half twice in the opening quarter of an hour.
(7) Concerning the 16 year-old girl the authors think that medical malpractice and carelessness of the parents were involved.
(8) By random assignment, the nurses read one of four versions of the rape which varied in terms of whether or not the victim locked her car door (carelessness manipulation) and time of attack (5:00 p.m. or midnight).
(9) Like many public figures on the left, he has been far too careless with his favours.
(10) He claims the network’s carelessness and conduct with its Cairo-based staff resulted in harassment of al-Jazeera staff, raids on the office and eventually the detention and imprisonment of several staffers.
(11) As it is, the team were careless with a comfortable lead in Jamaica (but got away with it ), formidable in their movement against an outclassed Panama , and struggled to get going in the heat and altitude of their game against Honduras .
(12) People usually don't make silly, careless mistakes when they're motivated and working in a positive environment.
(13) Seventy seven percent of the exposures were seen during routine care, 28.5% were perceived as due to personal carelessness, 19.9% due to patient agitation, 33.5% as inherent to the procedure and 8.9% to abandonment of material.
(14) Most burns occurred in teenage boys (6) and all but 1 were the result of carelessness on the part of the burn victim.
(15) Blatant carelessness, misuse or improper maintenance of equipment, and intoxication are analyzed as contributory factors.
(16) What has happened, of course, is something entirely different – and the callously careless attitude of western governments to this has given the impression of western complicity to many (who are already steeped in a culture of conspiracy theories) in Iraq and the Middle East.
(17) As a German European, I am disappointed by the mixture of incapability and carelessness back home.
(18) The government’s response has been shamefully poor, marked by carelessness for the lives of ordinary people, and only really concerned with damage control and trying to ensure this does not affect the flow of investment,” said Edgardo Buscaglia, a leading expert in international organised crime and political corruption around the world.
(19) Wenger talked about his side committing "easy mistakes" and he might easily have been referring to Özil's carelessness before the goal that made it 3-1, playing a senseless pass to Mathieu Flamini, then watching Fernandinho steal in to bend a wonderful shot beyond Wojciech Szczesny.
(20) "From being driven, careless, impulsive, the new breed of shopper is a very careful spender.