as in negligence
failure to take the care that a cautious person usually takes
the only errors you made were from carelessness, not lack of knowledge
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Recent Examples of carelessness
Earhart was a complicated woman, highly skilled as a pilot yet with a tendency toward carelessness.
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ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
Disappointing to see talent overshadowed by carelessness.
—Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Human error, carelessness and everyday habits are now the leading causes of cyber incidents, identified by CISOs worldwide.
—Max Silber, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Recently, fans and the media have been focusing more on him due to his recurring mistakes, apparently caused by carelessness with and without the ball, as well as his spotty health record.
—Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
The sequence is incredibly disturbing, underlining the carelessness with which Prodigy has been treating these overgrown children.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carelessness
negligence
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Rachel Crafton, whose husband Casey was on the passenger plane, filed the suit alleging wrongful death and negligence.—
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Now 28, tretinoin has reversed the effects of my earlier negligence.—
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“Carelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carelessness. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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