(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.
Raffish
Definition:
(a.) Resembling, or having the character of, raff, or a raff; worthless; low.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kenneth introduced them both to Swinging London and he enjoyed the frisson of arriving at debauched parties with two 21-year-old men, one of them fey and elegant, and the other raffish and working-class."
(2) His father, a teacher, introduced him to serious drama, but young Bill also experienced raffish visual entertainment from the visiting Sadler’s Wells Ballet.
(3) Like David Byrne, Chaz Jankel and Jez Kerr, Dear is one of white funk's great declarers, raffishly making gnomic observations like a pitch-shifted James Mason.
(4) He proved himself a brilliant, yet unflashy, raconteur with quite a raffish bohemian past.
(5) He was always impeccably turned out - always a suit and tie, when the rest of us slobs slumped around the screening rooms in jeans - though he favoured a raffish cravat, brilliant white slacks and a huge pair of aviator-style sunglasses when on the Croisette at Cannes.
(6) The Tories have raffishly gathered at the country's best loved steeplechase race course this weekend, on the northern edge of town.
(7) She is the daughter of the Queen’s late sister, Princess Margaret, and the raffish society snapper Lord Snowdon .
(8) The epitome of raffish cool in the Kate Moss days, he’s now actively positioning himself as a grumpy micromanaged has-been.
(9) Raffish, good-natured, and quintessentially English in his propensity to say sorry, Perry is now at agonies to insist his comments were ill-informed.
(10) A woman placed in the role of an action hero or a criminal adventurer is empowered, heroic, raffish.
(11) With its clubby green armchairs and smoothly attentive waiters, it's old school in the best possible way; what used to be called "raffish".
(12) Similarly, when Billy starts shooting large numbers of people through their heads in a breezy and cheerful fashion, you're supposed to take this as part of his raffish charm.
(13) Bill Astor, who had introduced the two lovers at the poolside party at the family seat, had a raffish reputation of his own - and he was David's elder brother.
(14) Teachout gives us a fast-moving overview of Mencken's career, his influential co-editorship of the raffish society magazine Smart Set and of the countercultural American Mercury, his amorous bachelordom, his final decades when his memoirs gave him a renewed popularity after years in political exile during the 1930s.
(15) A raffish or mysterious aura, it seems to me, is just as helpful when it comes to making a class pay attention as an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Hundred Years' War.