carelessness

Example Sentences

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He has frequent small carelessnesses of style, but he would probably have had as many or more if he had been the easiest and gentlest of easy-writing gentlemen.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George

I admit there were certain irregularities, certain carelessnesses, for which I was morally responsible; and beyond that I admit nothing.

From The Daffodil Mystery by Wallace, Edgar

Some sounds stamp themselves as carelessnesses or perversions at once and are never admitted into educated, cultured speech.

From Public Speaking by Stratton, Clarence

It was not necessarily a book for the scholar and the philologist, many of whom scorned it on account of its rather obvious carelessnesses and inaccuracies.

From The Life of George Borrow by Jenkins, Herbert George

It is the trifling carelessnesses that bring bad results—the tiny things that it seems silly to take the trouble to do.

From The Story of Silk by Price, Hattie Longstreet