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• a  marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful
  careless about her clothes
  forgotten by some careless person
  a careless housekeeper
  careless proofreading
  it was a careless mistake
  hurt by a careless remark
• s  effortless and unstudied
  an impression of careless elegance
  danced with careless grace
• s  (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration
  careless of the consequences

• After businesses complained about their reputation getting trashed by careless reviews, this spring the site began allowing proprietors to e-mail reviewers directly, make instant .
• After being touted as the best of America--talented, free-spirited and confident--he left Italy as that other type: reckless, careless and cocky.
• When her careless dog sitter (Piper Perabo) takers Chloe to Mexico, the pooch is kidnapped by a dog-fighting ring.

• regardless

• careful

News & Articles

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• Careless smoking suspected in Ludington fire death
  Police say careless smoking may have caused a fire that killed a 45-year-old man in the Lake Michigan shoreline city of Ludington.
  June 20, 2013 - Detroit Free Press
• Careless smoking leads to deadly apartment fire
  Police say careless smoking may have caused a fire that killed a 45-year-old man in the Lake Michigan shoreline city of Ludington.
  June 20, 2013 - ClickOnDetroit
• Careless smoking may have led to fatal fire
  Police say careless smoking may have caused a fire that killed a 45-year-old man in the Lake Michigan shoreline city of Ludington.
  June 20, 2013 - WZZM 13 Grand Rapids

Quotes

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• David Ortiz in Washington Post
  I definitely was a little bit careless back in those days when I was buying supplements and vitamins over the counter . . . but I never buy steroids or use steroids,Ortiz said Saturday afternoon at a news conference at Yankee Stadium before...
• Timothy Geithner in FOXNews
  As to his failure to pay the payroll taxes from 2001 to 2004 while he worked for the International Monetary Fund, Geithner said: "These were careless mistakes. They were avoidable mistakes."
• Barack Obama in Bloomberg
  In the final days of campaigns, the say-anything, do- anything politics too often takes over,Obama said. "We've seen it before and we are seeing it again -- ugly phone calls, misleading mail, misleading TV ads, careless, outrageous...