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carelessly

ˈkɛrlɛsli
WordNet
A long shirt (for man, woman, child?) Made of coarse cotton and carelessly finished.
A long shirt (for man, woman, child?) Made of coarse cotton and carelessly finished.
  1. (adv) carelessly
    without care or concern "carelessly raised the children's hopes without thinking of their possible disappointment"
  2. (adv) carelessly
    in a rakish manner "she wore her hat rakishly at an angle"
  3. (adv) carelessly
    without caution or prudence "one unfortunately sees historic features carelessly lost when estates fall into unsympathetic hands"
Illustrations
Mercury brings Carelessness to Amor.
Mercury brings Carelessness to Amor.
Study in terracotta, carelessly modeled, of a standing Diana with quiver, torch and greyhound, on a square plinth at the front. Sketch for a garden statue. The head is missing and the right hand has been restored. Diana is a companion piece to Apollo (BK-1996-21). Remark: this unsigned Diana is a preliminary study for a garden statue in sandstone, which is located in the country house .....
Study in terracotta, carelessly modeled, of a standing Diana with quiver, torch and greyhound, on a square plinth at the front. Sketch for a garden statue. The head is missing and the right hand has been restored. Diana is a companion piece to Apollo (BK-1996-21). Remark: this unsigned Diana is a preliminary study for a garden statue in sandstone, which is located in the country house .....
Study in terracotta, carelessly modeled, of a standing Apollo with lyre, in front of a garden statue, with a dragon at his feet; around a drapery, otherwise naked. Scratched working lines over the body and leg. Head and left hand are missing, as is part of the front of the plinth. Apollo is a pendant of Diana (BK-1996-22) Note: this unsigned Apollo is a preliminary study for a garden statue in sandstone that is located in the country estate .....
Study in terracotta, carelessly modeled, of a standing Apollo with lyre, in front of a garden statue, with a dragon at his feet; around a drapery, otherwise naked. Scratched working lines over the body and leg. Head and left hand are missing, as is part of the front of the plinth. Apollo is a pendant of Diana (BK-1996-22) Note: this unsigned Apollo is a preliminary study for a garden statue in sandstone that is located in the country estate .....
Personification of carelessness (Socordia). A woman with a deck of cards in her left hand and a triktrak board in her right hand, a ball game and a ring at her feet. Sixth print from a series of fourteen with personifications of virtues and vices.
Personification of carelessness (Socordia). A woman with a deck of cards in her left hand and a triktrak board in her right hand, a ball game and a ring at her feet. Sixth print from a series of fourteen with personifications of virtues and vices.
Deer and rabbits are hunted in a landscape. Near some ruins, a careless hunter has fallen into a pit with snakes. Although his friends try to pull him out of the hole with a rope, their attempts are too late. The man is bitten by snakes and strangled. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a series about hunting scenes.
Deer and rabbits are hunted in a landscape. Near some ruins, a careless hunter has fallen into a pit with snakes. Although his friends try to pull him out of the hole with a rope, their attempts are too late. The man is bitten by snakes and strangled. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a series about hunting scenes.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Carelessly
    In a careless manner.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. carelessly
    In a careless manner or way; negligently; heedlessly; inattentively; without care or concern.
Quotations
Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage
Source Unknown
Carelessness is worse than a thieve.
Gaelic Proverb
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain
In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.
Grannville
Ben Johnson
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
Ben Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
Samuel Johnson
Usage in the news

From the invasion of Iraq to the selection of Sarah Palin, carelessness has characterized recent episodes of faux conservatism. ashingtonpost.com

Report Describes Careless Handling of US Secrets. ashingtonpost.com

I would like to know what can be done to the careless bicycle riders who think they own the road and apparently do not have any rules of the road to follow. sopghreporter.com

A Tampa man is being cited with careless driving after a chain reaction crash on Golden Gate Parkway in Collier County. news-press.com

One driver was cited with careless driving following a crash on Highway 24 near the Cliff Dwellings. kktv.com

She packed on 45 pounds through 18 years of what she calls careless eating. nbc56.com

Check out what happens as a motorcyclist seeks directions from locals while a careless construction worker is near by. crz.com

Erie fire investigators said careless smoking started a fire that killed an Erie man at a westside apartment Monday afternoon. goerie.com

The female driver, eventually charged with careless driving, became entrapped in her vehicle and was rescued by township firefighters. nj.com

And when L'il Sebastian escapes through an open gate—an event that may have a bit more to do with Tom's carelessness than a Wamapoke curse —it's up to the parks department to make things right. theatlantic.com

Instead, Carol Svinarich was sentenced to 90 days of monitored house arrest for careless driving. koat.com

In it, he accuses Garfinkel of "misrepresent" what minimalism is, of being a "careless and overblown writer" and "unable to distinguish truth from fact. bib-arch.org

I've been careless about choosing monitors for the desktop PCs in my house. ired.com

Charges of duties at stop sign and careless driving-unintentional death were filed on Friday against Gregory Prylinski, 54, in a Sept 17 accident on Peach Street in Erie. goerie.com

"Carelessness and negligence on (Cunnane's) part proximately contributed to the happenings of the incident and to the injuries, loss and damages," they claim. mercurynews.com

Usage in scientific papers

Hence the chiral condensate, i.e., the trace of the full fermion propagator, calculated in a certain truncation of the SD equations (be it consistent or not) is inevitably gauge dependent if one simply takes the trace naively and carelessly.
Comment on "Truncated Schwinger-Dyson Equations and Gauge Covariance in QED3"

Apart from the logarithmic corrections, this returns the familiar condition traditionally written in a careless form Mw(E ) ≃ 1 in which units do not match.
Heteropolymer Sequence Design and Preferential Solvation of Hydrophilic Monomers: One More Application of Random Energy Model

The original solution was published almost 100 years ago, so to ignore it would be careless.
A fresh look at some questions surrounding black holes

For ease of exposition, we are being a bit careless here in the case of the root system of type Dn but this is taken care of later in the paper.
Prime Representations from a Homological Perspective

From the consistent history perspective, this is somewhat careless terminology; what the writers have in mind is, typically, a situation in which a macroscopic apparatus can be set to produce a spin half particle either in the state Sx = 1/2 or in the state Sz = 1/2.
Choice of Consistent Family, and Quantum Incompatibility

Usage in literature

The careless reader may miss them. "Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens" by G. K. Chesterton

With no particular purpose in view, he broke away a fragment, dropped it carelessly into his pocket, and continued on his way. "As It Was in the Beginning" by Philip Verrill Mighels

It is sometimes, surely, forgotten by Christian men that they have no right to be careless of their manner. "To My Younger Brethren" by Handley C. G. Moule

But not in a careless way. "The Death Shot" by Mayne Reid

We never deliberately forget our Lord; we carelessly drift into it. "My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year" by John Henry Jowett

Just plain carelessness on the part of the workers. "Anchorite" by Randall Garrett

The world sweeps by the man, carelessly, remorselessly, contemptuously. "Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners" by B.G. Jefferis

In the hour of their trial He was careless even of His own elect. "The History of Sir Richard Calmady" by Lucas Malet

Oh, Mr. Careless, Mr. Careless, I'm ruined, I'm undone. "The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]" by William Congreve

At other places he seemed to move along with more ease, and then they feared he would become careless. "Chatterbox, 1906" by Various

Usage in poetry
Since in the end consort together
Magdalen and Mary,
Youth is the time for careless weather;
Later lass, be wary.
"To A Brown Girl" by Countee Cullen
If, gaily clothed and proudly fed,
In careless ease we dwell;
Remind us of Thy manger bed,
And lowly cottage cell!
"Hymn 5. Christmas Day" by Reginald Heber
"Oh, had I Colin's winning ease,"
Said Lindor with a sigh,
"So carelessly ordained to please,
I'd every care defy.
"The Complaint" by Washington Allston Author object (684)
Shall I forget when prying dawn
Sends me about my way,
The careless stars, the quiet lawn,
And you with whom I lay?
"The Ballad of the Student in the South" by James Elroy Flecker Author object (326)
I wonder if Outside may be
One fair and great demesne
Where both gates open, careless of
The Town that lies between?
"The Town Between" by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Author object (311)
Her breast is like a drift o' snow,
Her little waist's soa thin,
To clasp it wi' a careless arm
Wod ommost be a sin.
"My Polly" by John Hartley