(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.
Unwary
Definition:
(a.) Not vigilant against danger; not wary or cautious; unguarded; precipitate; heedless; careless.
(a.) Unexpected; unforeseen; unware.
Example Sentences:
(1) The heat is getting oppressive but we stay alert and try to move with the flow, sticking to the left as much as possible and keeping an eye out for potholes and drain covers whose grilles face the direction of travel – lying in wait to trap unwary bike tyres.
(2) This uncommon, benign skin lesion has a bizarre histological appearance, which may frequently be misdiagnosed as milignant by the unwary.
(3) We wish to report on a design fault in the lid of a deep fat fryer which may lead to the unwary sustaining scalds of the hand.
(4) Fat within the fibroadipose layer anterior to the orbital septum may be mistaken for the preaponeurotic fat pad by the unwary surgeon and may lead to surgical error.
(5) Normally, cross-examination of a non-expert witness is a contest between a professional expert who is familiar with every detail of the case and a relatively unwary member of the public who is not.
(6) There are numerous potential pitfalls and traps for the unwary, but our experience has thus far been gratifyingly positive, and we endorse the further provision, observation, and documentation of this controversial approach to the care of the infertile couple.
(7) Evaluation and treatment of patients with ventricular arrhythmias are full of pitfalls for the unwary.
(8) Such charges have often caught out unwary travellers, landing some with bills running into thousands of pounds.
(9) Unwary pathologists have sometimes mistaken CETC for endocervical adenocarcinoma or interpreted them as "adenomatous hyperplasia."
(10) We welcome this opportunity to clarify their questions about our data, and to use their re-analysis of our material as a basis for a wider discussion of certain general aspects of the statistical analysis and interpretation of data and the pitfalls which await the unwary.
(11) The unwary and unprepared holiday-maker can be at risk of serious injury from a number of common sea creatures.
(12) However, the unwary traveler may encounter unexpected tropical diseases, many of which are preventable.
(13) These differences are significant at the 0.001 level and may give rise to a wrong interpretation by the unwary investigator.
(14) To the unwary, the resulting configuration can lead to an erroneous diagnosis of a mediastinal mass.
(15) It seems that in its efforts to reassure buyers, eBay has stacked the odds against unwary sellers.
(16) The author notes that two fallacies await the unwary psychiatrist: the fallacy of reductionism which defines the mystical experience in pathological terms only; and the fallacy of speculation without adequate philosophical or theological tools.
(17) This technology is less proven for other media, such as hair, saliva, or meconium, leaving potential pitfalls for the unwary researcher.
(18) On the basis of our results attention is pointed on the possible lesions of the enamel dependent from an unwary fluoride administration, particularly when decidual teeth are still present.
(19) Many pitfalls await the unwary, but with experience and care, most can be overcome or circumvented.
(20) His article in the Daily Mail last Friday, attacking "leftwing academics all too happy to feed the myths" of Blackadder and The Monocled Mutineer , was clever but unwary journalism.