CARELESSNESS in a Sentence

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199 example sentences for CARELESSNESS, such as:

1. One careless move loses the whole game.
2. He redoubled his gayety and carelessness.
3. Don't be so careless about / with spelling.
4. You will suffer one day for your carelessness.
5. The professor lambasted me for my careless mistake.

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 Meanings and Examples of CARELESSNESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
carelessness
 n.  failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
 n.  the quality of not being careful or taking pains
Classic Sentence: (179 in 12 pages)
1  There was no carelessness, no languor, no idle curiosity; none of the many shades of indifference to be seen in all other assemblies, visible for one moment there.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
2  As fairly as a captive can strike," said De Bracy, with apparent carelessness; "for he whose hands are tied should have his tongue at freedom.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  Henry Crawford, who meanwhile had taken up the play, and with seeming carelessness was turning over the first act, soon settled the business.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  That Eustacia was somehow the cause of Wildeve's carelessness in relation to the marriage had at once been Venn's conclusion on hearing of the secret meeting between them.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
5  That may point to carelessness or it may point to agitation and hurry upon the part of the cutter.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville
6  No harm would have been done had it not been that, as he passed your door, he perceived the key which had been left by the carelessness of your servant.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
7  It was from her that he inherited his detachment from the sumptuary side of life: the stoic's carelessness of material things, combined with the Epicurean's pleasure in them.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
8  My reason for this kind of carelessness, or carefulness, was, that I could always get something to eat when I went there.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  Augustine's cheek flushed; but he only observed, with his usual sarcastic carelessness.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  But the only son of their protectress had the management of her property; and, by carelessness and extravagance involved it to a large amount, and at last failed.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  At this moment, Legree sauntered up to the door of the shed, looked in, with a dogged air of affected carelessness, and turned away.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
12  The peasant, however, said: 'Don't tell me that,' and led the cow-herd before the mayor, who for his carelessness condemned him to give the peasant a cow for the calf which had run away.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE LITTLE PEASANT
13  And all present, even including Cavalcanti and his son, notwithstanding the stiffness of the one and the carelessness of the other, were thoughtful, on finding themselves assembled at the house of this incomprehensible man.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 63. The Dinner.
14  He redoubled his gayety and carelessness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker.
15  "His carelessness and indifference touch me to the heart," said Julie.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 112. The Departure.
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  The manager reproached the new salesgirl for her carelessness.
2  He failed to pass the examination through carelessness.
3  He punished the children for their carelessness by making them pay for the damage.
4  The accident was the inevitable consequence/result/outcome of carelessness.
5  You will suffer one day for your carelessness.
6  Because of the captain's carelessness, the ship crashed into the quay.
7  Don't be so careless about / with spelling.
8  One careless move loses the whole game.
9  A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life, a timely word may level stress, a loving word may heal and bless.
10  A careless mistake cost the company millions of dollars.
11  The security of the whole operation has been jeopardized by one careless person.
12  The professor lambasted me for my careless mistake.
13  The boss gave him the push due to his careless work.
14  The same threat is repeated in manifold forms to awaken the careless.
15  I should have been a careless shepherd if I had left a lamb so near a wolf's den.