a careless driver, worker, etc
He signed cheques with careless abandon.
He is always brushing her down for making careless mistakes.
This is because there are many careless people.
The professor lambasted me for my careless mistake.
The careless waiter dropped the dish onto the ground.
He remonstrated to his wife that she was too careless.
Fussy about trifles, careless about big things. Penny wise, pound foolish.
However, the analogy with agriculture does not stop there, and a careless farming of the seas could be as damaging as careless agriculture.
The security of the whole operation has been jeopardized by one careless person.
It was careless of me to show my interest at the time.
True love is like sneezing. It is always careless, and it is hard to fight.
My boss found some careless mistakes in your proposal, please be more serious.
Lions, leopards, hippopotamuses and elephants have often been more than a match for a greedy but careless crocodile.
Our neighbour' s a very careless bis driver ; he never thinks about what he' s responsible for.
Our horror increases if the person is victimized in a particularly vicious or careless way by fellow human beings.
Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God.
Therefore, if a resistor acquires surface films from careless handling or deposits from air contaminants, it should be cleaned with a foam-tipped swab and methanol.
Mr Willetts, born in 1956, is too prudent to answer categorically, but his arguments suggest that if nothing else they are certainly a careless one.
and by extension he intimates his distrust of all social and political revolutionary goals that are careless of the fate of the instinctual life.
You might ask why I don't just use the timestamp in the filesystem; the answer is that I don't trust it to survive careless users.
Emilia's infant daughter, Isabel, has recently died, exiling Emilia from the careless camaraderie of mothers and leaving her marriage to Jack Woolf in danger of collapse.
The window pane shattered by a baseball, a lamp knocked over by a careless child, or a plate dropped in the kitchen are already flowers are already dead.
God is not pleased with thoughtless singing of hymns, perfunctory praying of cliches, or careless exclamations of "Praise the Lord, " because we can't think of anything else to say at that moment.
It actually just replaces the body of the last method declared in the skeleton, so careless code changes to the skeleton can be a good way to hurt yourself and confuse your coworkers.
