(a.) Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, heedless of widespread international opposition, has again carried out a nuclear test, to which the Chinese government expresses its firm opposition," the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement.
(2) Like the kind of heedless, scatter-gun approach pursued by America and Britain that transformed al-Qaida from a small band of fairly well-educated violent extremists into a youthful social movement that appeals to many thousands of disaffected Muslim immigrants in the western diaspora, and many more millions who are economically and politically frustrated back home.
(3) For five nights, Saturday to Wednesday, the Ferguson city and St Louis county police departments betrayed hostility, incomprehension and fear as they confronted protesters, heedless that the militarised response had stoked anger and radicalism over Brown's death.
(4) This sense of connectedness gives rise to deep feelings of love, awe, humility and reverence that are truly spiritual and feed the inner being, but followed by shame at humankind’s heedless arrogance and shortsightedness.
(5) He categorized the country’s problems as a series of “bubbles” akin to the housing bubble or the dotcom bubble and criticized the “heedlessness” of the elite in ignoring them.
(6) Our children can’t stop their friends (or enemies) from posting drunken photos or a heedless rant, barnacles that will cling to them for years.” Privacy, he argues, “allows us to reinvent ourselves, or at least maintains the valuable illusion that reinvention is possible.
(7) Its flagship store on Regent Street had the air of a venerable institution - dowdy, British, heedless of what was going on outside its own doors.
(8) The administration feels untouchable; it heedlessly oppresses prisoners with growing severity.
(9) A fortunate baby boomer, mine had been a life that was, I suspect, not so very different from the lives of any number of thirty- and fortysomethings in the West: hedonistic, heedless, happy-go-lucky, helter-skelter.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Theresa May launches her Conservative leadership bid: ‘Brexit means Brexit’ Some had their heads in the hands from the shock, others were openly insulting both Gove and Johnson, heedless of the journalists in the crowd, and shouting rumours to each other about how the Machiavellian moves had come about.
(11) Oh, for just hoicking out a bag of Taylors of Harrogate , sticking the kettle on and sniffing the milk like one of The Sweeney before splashing it into the mug heedless of danger to life or limb.
(12) His reaction suggests that he remains heedless, and that the tragedy of Helmut Kohl may not have reached its final act.
(13) Japan's polarised industrial culture, which veers between the heedless pursuit of short- term interest, on the one hand, and confessions, tears, and apparently heartfelt apologies when things go wrong, on the other, makes it an extreme case.
(14) "Manning's conduct was of a heedless nature that made it actually and imminently dangerous to others," Lind told the court .
(15) This is the same Blair whose sofa government and heedless attitude to parliamentary opposition degraded his New Labour brand and led to such policy achievements as the Iraq war.
(16) Apparently heedless of such nuances and of his need for support if he is to negotiate his way out this mess, Assad poured contempt on fellow Arab leaders in his speech.
(17) These studies show that voluntary attention in the form of inattention, "heedless negligence," or failure to cooperate, is not the specific attentional quality that is disordered in SPEM of schizophrenics and their relatives.
(18) Worse still, in real life rather than mythology, King Sisyphus himself gets to skip the original rock-rolling punishment for being crafty, cruel, and hubristic, very like the heedless financial markets.
(19) But when we hear them from the stage, in a show that pumps abuse by the tsunami, we're laughing at how anyone can be so warped, so insensitive, so heedless of censure or consequence.
(20) The EU is constitutionally wedded to the outdated and harmful project of heedless economic growth and industrial over-development – at a time when we need to stop living as if we have three planets to spare and not hurtling ever faster over the precipice.
Unaware
Definition:
(a.) Not aware; not noticing; giving no heed; thoughtless; inattentive.
(adv.) Unawares.
Example Sentences:
(1) The subjects are unaware of the mode of examination.
(2) Persons responsible for animals may be unaware of the potential hazard or lack good judgment in the use of these chemicals.
(3) In many cases mental health professionals consulted by a number of the children when they were using drugs were likewise unaware of the marijuana abuse.
(4) While RT is regarded as a major treatment innovation in psychiatry, nonpsychiatrists are reluctant or unaware of the uses of antipsychotic medication as it pertains to RT.
(5) Office interrogation of the AICDs revealed 12 of the 20 patients (60%) had received AICD discharges, with 5 of these 12 patients unaware of this occurring.
(6) But he notably did not say, as he as done in previous comments about the affair, that he accepted his PR chief's assurances that he had been unaware of hacking during his editorship of the tabloid.
(7) Two observers, unaware of each other's findings and of the diagnosis, examined red cells in the urine of 109 patients by phase-contrast microscopy.
(8) The specific operative technique was randomly assigned to the patient immediately prior to surgery, and the patient was unaware of the particular technique used.
(9) The transplant centers using these kidneys were unaware of the status of the kidney they received, that is, whether it was from a pretreated or a control group.
(10) And there are countless white Britons who are unaware of the histories that bind us all together.
(11) Students were focused on the evaluation of their technical skills and were unaware of the evaluation of their interaction skills.
(12) Other reviewers, unaware of the pathologic results, surveyed the clinical data, and results were combined for analysis.
(13) Unarmed and unaware of the horror that was about to be unleashed on the island, Berntsen succeeded in protecting his 10-year-old son but could do nothing to save himself.
(14) Moreover, physicians were previously unaware of the relevant susceptibility test results in 49% of the alerts.
(15) They seem to be unaware of the plight of this particular group of British savers.
(16) Calibrated raters were unaware of group affiliation of products.
(17) Because we were of a belief that a lot of their members were unaware of this August time period, we did run an information campaign this past year,” he says.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Palmer was unaware the Coalition's Direct Action bill was before the Senate You are very naïve when it comes to politics, my girl Figuring out how Palmer envisages this could ever eventuate is one aim as we sit down the next morning for an interview in the resort’s “Titanic II room”, adjacent to the resort’s foyer, pool room and empty breakfast bar.
(19) The former bus inspector was described by the judge as a "foot soldier" who was unaware the target was blowing aircraft out of the sky.
(20) He repeatedly argued that his south London upbringing meant he was rude to people who were rude to him and said Jones needed to “get over it”, although he said that he was unaware of his colleague’s history of illness.