heedful
Example Sentences
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A more heedful scientist might have surveyed the Chinese data and begun preparations for tests of his own.
From New York Times • May 12, 2020
McMillan initially promised to train fissile material handlers to be more heedful of plutonium-handling perils, for example, and to bring the inventory and safety documents guiding their work up to date.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 30, 2017
Her 16th birthday is the occasion for an Edwardian tennis match – lots of chaps swanning about in white flannels and boaters – through which she skitters barefoot, heedful only of her secret romance.
From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2012
And the military, despite its intermittently heavy-handed responses, is heedful of public sentiment to a degree unprecedented under the old regime.
From Time • Jun. 2, 2011
Never in his career had he had more heedful listeners.
From Thirty by O'Brien, Howard Vincent
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.