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Meanings of heedlessness in English
Spanish
imprudencia The trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities.
Synonyms
Examples for "rashness"
Examples for "rashness"
1
It was founded in injustice, conducted with rashness, and ended in disaster.19
2
In the last there is a certain rashness which the first disdains,-
3
Early in the day there was no excuse for any such rashness.
4
Zasius the jurist was repelled by the haste and rashness of Luther.
5
They disapproved of the rashness of the new recruit to their body.
1
Instead it ridicules the petty mindlessness of bureaucracy and office politics everywhere.
2
I opted for Chinese, then sat back and enjoyed a state of blissful mindlessness.
3
Even Eden understood the necessity of mindlessness on some occasions.
4
To them, death is violence and miscalculation, mindlessness and cruelty.
5
For a moment, a marvellous, frontier moment, they allowed us to live in blissful mindlessness.
Usage of heedlessness in English
1
What had been done was done in heedlessness and not by intention.
2
Their reckoning draweth nigh for mankind, while they turn away in heedlessness.
3
The heedlessness of George brought his purse to a state of emptiness.
4
How long will ye wander in the wilderness of heedlessness and superstition?
5
If camp regulations are violated, it seems to be usually through heedlessness.
6
Competence and aptness, or folly and heedlessness, make a world of difference.
7
Of what avail would then the distinction be between heedfulness and heedlessness?
8
He turned and with angry heedlessness tossed his glass at the table.
9
But old men may come here through their own heedlessness and unsuspicion.
10
Gentle emotions began to stir in a heart hardened by heedlessness and sin.
11
I never, in heedlessness, addressed any disagreeable or evil speech to my husband.
12
From such heedlessness proceed dire atheism and systematic wickedness of conduct.
13
And the English, with their characteristic heedlessness, have never troubled to disillusion him.
14
But his jeweled thoughts were not cast into ashes of heedlessness or stupidity.
15
I am so afraid of disobeying him, by heedlessness or forgetfulness.
16
Often, of course, it was mere heedlessness, mere want of reflection.
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United Kingdom
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