from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being heedless; inattention; carelessness; thoughtlessness.
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- noun The state or character of being
heedless; inattention; carelessness; thoughtlessness.
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- noun a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people)
- noun the trait of acting rashly and without prudence
- noun the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities
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Shes not entirely careless about her physical well being, but the doughnuts represent a certain heedlessness in her desire to appease her appetites.
I found myself rooting for Tamara to reconnect in the deepest way with handsome Andy, her childhood friend — Luke Evans makes him a son of the soil who would have had Hardy's vote — and I was shocked by her home-wrecking exploits with a fatuous scrivener, though her heedlessness is exactly the point.
This is the true philosophy of most of what is called heedlessness in children, and for which, poor things, they receive so many harsh reprimands and so much punishment.
Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind
But the inherited trait that shows more prominently is a kind of heedlessness, a stubborn belief that the Kennedys can live above the rules.
In a kind of heedlessness, for which I cannot blame myself enough, I have, I have no doubt, mentioned
"Well, and you'll all be disappointed," said Hervey with a kind of heedlessness that nettled his scoutmaster.
In a kind of heedlessness, for which I cannot blame myself enough, I have, I have no doubt, mentioned Mr Carker the Junior much oftener than was necessary; and have allowed his name sometimes to slip through my lips, when it was against your expressed wish.
She can help Annie develop habits and inclinations that offset her heedlessness or her lack of sympathy, such as the habit of cleaning up her messes literally and figuratively, of apologizing, and of righting the wrongs she has done.
A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, exploitativeness, heedlessness, arrogance, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, and lack of empathy and remorse.
Yet Lincoln, according to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles, "took upon himself the whole blame—said it was carelessness, heedlessness on his part—he ought to have been more attentive."