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Definition of Carelessly
1. Adverb. Without care or concern. "Carelessly raised the children's hopes without thinking of their possible disappointment"
2. Adverb. Without caution or prudence. "One unfortunately sees historic features carelessly lost when estates fall into unsympathetic hands"
3. Adverb. In a rakish manner. "She wore her hat rakishly at an angle"
Definition of Carelessly
1. adv. In a careless manner.
Definition of Carelessly
1. Adverb. Giving the appearance of carelessness; relaxedly. ¹
2. Adverb. Done without care or attention; inattentively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carelessly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carelessly
Literary usage of Carelessly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Veto Power: Its Origin, Development, and Function in the Government of by Edward Campbell Mason (1891)
"Bills carelessly drawn. — Several relief bills have been vetoed because they were
so carelessly drawn that they would not have accomplished their intended ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1889)
"The act in relation to poll-taxes is not only cruel and unjust, crudely and
carelessly drawn, evidently the product of incompetent persons, but is clearly ..."
3. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"We might quote several other instances from this carelessly inserted advertisement.
As a translator Mr. Loewy seems to have done his duty FIG. 4. FIG. 5. ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"... on 5 May 1681, Wafer was sitting on the ground near a man who was drying some
gunpowder on a silver plate, and carelessly allowed it to get overheated. ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"... the soldiers scattering their fire about them carelessly, aa they always do,
which, in a city of wooden houses, necessarily produced a conflagration, ..."
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