Definition of carelessly in English:
carelessly
adverb ˈkɛəlɪsliˈkɛrləsli
In a casual or reckless way; inattentively.
roadsides are full of litter thrown carelessly by passers-by
Example sentencesExamples
- Like many human things, globalization can often be just downright unfair or carelessly vicious.
- Electricians know you can get killed by carelessly putting one or more of your appendages in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- Even under the existing system of land taxation, the fertility of the soil has been carelessly exploited.
- I hold up the totem, then carelessly push it back across the table.
- Do not carelessly discard receipts from card transactions.
- He was exposed heavily and carelessly to wood dust at a time when it was known that such exposures had the potential to cause cancer.
- Users of hands-free phones still risk prosecution for driving carelessly or recklessly.
- Bikini-clad boaters at midnight carelessly spill red wine overboard.
- Loose lips sink ships, but so do carelessly managed documents.
- A few of the authors transliterated carelessly, even incorrectly, into a sort of pidgin German.