Used in a Sentence

carelessly

How to use carelessly in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for carelessly.

Editorial note

But a reader of your comment would be left to wonder whether they do, because you wrote it carelessly.

Examples24
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

without care or concern; "carelessly raised the children's hopes without thinking of their possible disappointment"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of carelessly gathered in one view.

adverb

without care or concern; "carelessly raised the children's hopes without thinking of their possible disappointment"

adverb

without caution or prudence; "one unfortunately sees historic features carelessly lost when estates fall into unsympathetic hands"

adverb

in a rakish manner; "she wore her hat rakishly at an angle"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for carelessly.

adverb

without care or concern; "carelessly raised the children's hopes without thinking of their possible disappointment"

adverb

without caution or prudence; "one unfortunately sees historic features carelessly lost when estates fall into unsympathetic hands"

adverb

in a rakish manner; "she wore her hat rakishly at an angle"

Example sentences

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But a reader of your comment would be left to wonder whether they do, because you wrote it carelessly.

2

Hell, this makes the SATs, with its ragged edges and sloppy Times New Roman straight out of MS Word, look like carelessly produced junk.

3

In any case, I'm not sure that I need a hint to tell me that doing things quickly and carelessly is a bad idea. But we all do it sometimes, in both our programming and our writing.

4

I thought it much more likely that somebody carelessly pasted a bunch of addresses into a "To" box instead of "Bcc".

5

Shame on us for using Rails carelessly. if you have any experience with startups, you'll know that 99% of the things you launch go nowhere--this project was no different.

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> First, throwing the term 'sexist' around carelessly > undermines genuine claims of sexism. The same goes for rasism.

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I carelessly tried to kick him off, uninstall the rootkit and restart the server only to find out that he could continue to use the same exploit to get access. Then we just called our host and asked them to take down the box.

8

Well, there you have it folks - the story in the article is obviously the fault of the very fit physical therapist having no idea and just carelessly blowing up her own arms. Can't possibly happen to you!

9

When the Go team introduced the language, they used the phrase "systems language", and the meme has stuck, even though Rob Pike has since expressed some regret about having used the phrase so carelessly. Now he thinks the phrase "cloud infrastructure language" would be more apt.

10

If Color takes off, and is used carelessly, it could become the single greatest social engineering weapon ever made. Who needs to sneak into your competition's office when you can just get within 150 meters and fire up an app.

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The users cannot abdicate their personal responsibility not to use the service carelessly. I mean, were talking about letting people into your home here.

12

Call me defeatist, but when I see an existing Bill of Rights being violated so frequently and carelessly, I don't think a new Bill of Rights would be a solution.

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When a man works hard, he is loathe to spend it carelessly, because he knows the sacrifice in time and effort it took to acquire the money. In the words of the great Milton Friedman: "Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own".

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They could also define as a crime any collision by which a motorist acts carelessly in a way that results in death or injury. They could impose strict penalties, such as losing the right to drive upon the occurrence of even one such event.

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Isn't it criminally liable to transport something this lethal so carelessly? I mean people were ready to declare this a terrorist's dream of dirty-bomb material.

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But I also believe it was done too early and too carelessly - the government now knows exactly where to look for the leak and prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law.

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You can say the same thing about developers who carelessly suppress compiler warnings without understanding what they're telling them. However, the support is there in case I, or another developer, make a mistake.

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How ever, many may not be able or willing to express it, especially given the amount of disdain and patronisation fired carelessly at people who feel this way, by people's knee jerk, ill-considered "opinion". If you reply, be careful.

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The prevailing attitude amongst startups and even big businesses of blasting everything carelessly with shotguns because it's the latest and greatest needs to die. Quality and therefore trust is suffering.

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First, throwing the term 'sexist' around carelessly undermines genuine claims of sexism. Second, it attempts to not only target an individual as sexist, but often the male gender as a whole as being part of a "misogynistic boys-club", in turn implying that masculine identity itself is inherently wrong.

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The few cases where this does not happen are exceptions, not the rule, and this shows the anti-male perspective of people like you, who carelessly accuse the entire IT culture of being sexist when the truth is that our culture couldn't be farther from that.

22

For pennies they could have vaccinated the kids, and probably evaded detection, but in their haste they carelessly exposed their operation. > I’m disappointed by the immediate release of operational details for political expediency.

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I don't mean hyperbolically evil, like the word carelessly thrown around when one's political opponents suggest +/- 3% changes in governmental policies. I mean evil: characterized by sin, injurious to the proper ordering of society, an offense against the dignity of man, in contravention to the natural law as discoverable by reason.

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Now it appears that these kinds of requests are perfectly legal, do not require the authorization of any member of the judiciary, and appear to be used quite carelessly to gather information about people not officially suspected of anything. Getting "official" personally identifying information from ISPs is much harder, though, but this does not look good especially given that the new police law currently in planning stages is expected to considerably extend the electronic powers of the police.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use carelessly in a sentence?

But a reader of your comment would be left to wonder whether they do, because you wrote it carelessly.

What does carelessly mean?

without care or concern; "carelessly raised the children's hopes without thinking of their possible disappointment"

What part of speech is carelessly?

carelessly is commonly used as adverb.