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Meanings of heedless in English

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Marked by or paying little heed or attention; we know now that it is bad economics"--Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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      Usage of heedless in English
      1
      I'm saying they were aware of the risk, and they were heedless.
      The Guardian
      2
      Splendid; airy, untouched by fear; untouched by thought; fearless, faithless, heedless, graceless.
      If Winter Comes
      3
      Precipitate, unresisting, are the day in the train and the heedless night.
      Ceres' Runaway, and Other Essays
      4
      He seems increasingly heedless of the dangers into which he leads them.
      Armageddon's Children
      5
      It makes him careless of the sunshine, and heedless of the storm.
      Charlemont; Or, The Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
      6
      To-day the delicious weather had drawn him forth in a heedless mood.
      The Emancipated
      7
      And rage boiled up in him against this heedless and happy sleeper.
      Pierre and Jean
      8
      He plunged on, heedless of his friend's new authority as High King.
      The last page
      9
      One moment of heedless inconsideration may plunge thee in years of calamity.
      Imogen: A Pastoral Romance
      10
      But we were very heedless and in a hurry to be great.
      United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to...
      11
      Full of this idea and heedless of time he fished and waited.
      The Blue Lagoon
      12
      The Weaver's attention was fixed firmly on her, heedless of defending himself.
      The skein of lament
      13
      We sauntered along the sea-margin again, heedless of the passage of time.
      Aylwin
      14
      He ran, heedless of direction, pushing mindlessly forward through shadows and mist.
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      15
      How heedless are we in youth, of all her anxieties and kindness.
      Tales of a Traveller
      16
      Happy the man that cleaveth unto it, and woe betide the heedless.
      A Compilation on Bahá'í Education
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      Heedless through the time
      Heedless across language varieties
      United Kingdom
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      United States of America
      Less common