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How to use carelessness in a sentence

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Three chords, the right amount of carelessness in the attitude and those irresistible tambourines with the drums make them deserved hit singles.
They would have been on time, ma'am, I swear, if it hadn't been for my carelessness.
If unable to attribute the injury to the carelessness and negligence of others, the patient will often become blameful of self.
Applying the word liberally or haphazardly, without regard to its historical significance, is an act of carelessness.
Admit that it was the carelessness of the company's agents, in leaving the switch open, that threw the train upon the side track.
We are responsible to God if by our carelessness or neglect we lead our children into a life or crime or other social evils.
It is this in-between place of carelessness and thoughtlessness that disturbs.
Not that I object to the use per se, but that there is a carelessness that borders on disregard for the actual content.
Throwing away a two goal lead once can be put down to bad luck, but to do it for the second game in succession smacked of carelessness.
A newborn baby has a tiny heart and minute organs, and there is no margin for error or carelessness.
I was hurriedly winding our grandfather clock when, in my carelessness, the pendulum disconnected.
However, ethics aside, to force an employee to pay for a mistake, even one due to carelessness is against the law.
An error in judgment has long been distinguished from an act of unskilfulness or carelessness or due to lack of knowledge.
With a carelessness wakened life would've censured them for they couped me onto a table and left me there to my own goyishe devices.
It is hard to imagine carelessness, incompetence, prejudice, distortion, falsehood and unfairness being put to better use.
One is left guessing whether essential marks have been omitted simply through carelessness, or designedly for a mock-modern effect.
That little bit of carelessness or inexperience can sometimes result in the most awful consequences.
The second fault I want to plead guilty to is carelessness in my statement of your view, and unimaginativeness in applying it.
The tragedies caused by accident, human error and carelessness have become the most significant in the early history of the region.
The combination of incompetence and downright carelessness on the part of those charged with protecting our citizens is absolutely damnable.
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But the disgrace of this ravishment of our wife during our hours of carelessness, hath stained us, to be sure.
And all these arrangements had been upset by the carelessness of a domestic.
This is chargeable to carelessness on the part of the paper-machine tender.
The omission illustrates his carelessness in respect to the chronicling of his deeds, his heedlessness as to fame and glory.
Or there may have been a little carelessness when erecting, and a cotter pin omitted.
Bat laughed and reached for a salt shaker with a great assumption of carelessness.
And his carelessness might have been due to the familiarity of the trail to the pool.
Such a sad mistake did Dryope once make, and suffered for her carelessness by being changed from a mortal into a hamadryad.
At first she was tempted to turn away her eye with carelessness and inattention.
If such a misprint were found, it might quite naturally be attributed to carelessness.
She noticed his carelessness, the unselfconscious way in which he smiled at the clerk and paused to buy some cigars.
His style is careless, though it is probable that the carelessness is not unstudied.
Nothing more, sir, than that he had once or twice rebuked Vreeland and Danes for carelessness in squad drill.
The patroon gazed in seeming carelessness from the soldier to the young girl.
When the gods restored Pelops to life, Ceres was very sorry for her carelessness and gave him a shoulder of ivory.
She must have been really kind, for she never resented any petulance or carelessness.
It was this pluralism that led to much abuse, much neglect, and much carelessness.
The blitheness of their humor, therefore, contained also a seasoning of carelessness.
For in us inactivity is the child of cowardice, and carelessness of inactivity and indolence.
It hurt him to think that his captain would set his nonappearance down to carelessness, and so it had been in a way.
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