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Reckless   /rˈɛkləs/   Listen
adjective
Reckless  adj.  
1.
Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent.
2.
Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless. "It made the king as reckless as them diligent."
Synonyms: Heedless; careless; mindless; thoughtless; negligent; indifferent; regardless; unconcerned; inattentive; remiss; rash.





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"Reckless" Quotes from Famous Books



... her bag and brought it out—the last she had. And Monte, in his reckless joy, handed that over also to Soucin. The man was too bewildered to do more than bow as he might before ...
— The Triflers • Frederick Orin Bartlett
... in the day they went to a picture show and finally entered a down-town restaurant, quite different from and altogether better than the one where they had always before eaten, and enjoyed a really good dinner. When they left the restaurant he was still in the restless and reckless mood that had ...
— Mary Louise Solves a Mystery • L. Frank Baum
... whom danger could not daunt, Nor sophistry perplex, nor pain subdue; A stoic, reckless of the world's vain taunt, And steeled the path of honor to pursue. So, when by all deserted, still he knew How best to soothe the heart-sick, or confront Sedition; schooled with equal eye to view The frowns ...
— Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia • Various
... a reckless thing to put ashore while the sun was still high above the horizon. Still the spot was a lonely one—on one side great heathy tracts rising slowly away towards the foothills of Criffel—on the other a turmoil of huge cliffs and purple summits to the west, ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett
... to look behind her, but rapidly and as if in no great apprehension of pursuit; or perhaps her own quest had made her reckless. At the end of this straight and almost level stretch the road rose steeply to wind over another foot-hill, and here she broke into a run. I pressed after her up the ascent, and from the knap of it, with a shock, found myself looking down at close hand upon a small dim bay of the ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine


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