Marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences.
Marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters.
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Examples for "reckless "
Examples for "reckless "
1 Madam, - The present Government gained power by reckless and impossible promises.
2 They are nervous; they are timid; they are unreasoning; they are reckless .
3 In the case of Ireland, reckless bank lending almost bankrupted the country.
4 To believe it can be done without broad alliances is simply reckless .
5 Or will an abrasive approach only lead to more reckless criminal activity?
1 However, if you are feeling unwell with the rash , see your doctor.
2 Patients who developed a rash had a borderline statistically significant longer survival.
3 She predicted a rash of prosecutions when the new administration takes office.
4 But if there were hostages-especiallyymbryne hostages- Icouldn'trisk such rash action.
5 ScabiesMy sister brought her young child to the doctor with a rash .
1 Viscount Moritani, I command that you cease your foolhardy course of action.
2 He had not gotten this far in the Court from being foolhardy .
3 He has been imprudent in the past, too believing and too foolhardy .
4 The lieutenant ordered his men to halt and face the foolhardy bandits.
5 But the New Englander of the frontier was nothing if not foolhardy .
Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic.
1 Early days these may be, but heady days they most certainly are.
2 The ambition of those heady days had ended in tragedy, of course.
3 But this heady environment, especially after a recent stock-market swoon, looks vulnerable.
4 So long since she had felt that heady sense of sated passion.
5 His words were as heady as the wine Rhiannon had tasted earlier.
6 Of heady successes and crushing disappointments; of discovery and freedom and self-realization.
7 Gordon believes the heady days of full integer growth are behind us.
8 Still the heady Vane sent up another pitch similar to the others.
9 The heady heights of real, big-league power are gained by few men.
10 Neither brother had expected a moment so fraught, so heady with portent.
11 There was a heady quality in the very ring of her name.
12 Euroscene: These are heady times at the world's most famous soccer club.
13 The result is a heady mix of paranoia, a predisposition to self-interest.
14 That's what made it so heady to try and sort this out.
15 The odour of the burning leaves was heady , a superdistillate of memories.
16 This was the hidden reality of the heady life in the arena.
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