heedlessness
Example Sentences
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His mayoral years were a dizzying tableau of heroism and heedlessness.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022
Certainly there are other years or periods in which stupidity or heedlessness brought civilization in general close to eradication.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2021
The result of that heedlessness, as we’ve seen in these pandemic months, is quite literally death.
From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2020
The cascade of cases carries an unavoidable sense of Greek tragedy, of characters finally dragged down by their own heedlessness.
From Slate • Oct. 5, 2020
And I suspect we had a similar intensity, a similar heedlessness, a similar agitation of the soul.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
