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recklessness

noun as in carelessness

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Eifert also points to a sub-culture of traders who have gained infamy for engaging in seemingly reckless options trading, and then sharing their gains—or in many cases huge losses—on social media platforms.

From Fortune

Epidemiologists think that is reckless and could both cause massive unnecessary suffering and overcrowd our health care facilities.

“Without that data, it seems reckless to proceed to approving the vaccine,” says virologist Onyema Ogbuagu of the Yale School of Medicine.

There’s a cliche that tech industry founders are bent on reckless growth all because their aggressive entrepreneurial tendencies weren’t tempered by any college coursework in the humanities.

From Digiday

Discontent with life led to complete recklessness on the battlefield.

Crime,  fiscal recklessness, and homelessness are stirring like discordant strains of music.

Strategic recklessness aside, the chief problem with the plan was that it needed a weak, feckless opposition.

What the gun owner claims as self-defense often looks, on closer examination, more like trigger-happy recklessness.

As the first African-American to rise up the ladder so high, he has rarely risked recklessness as an adult.

They propagated their species with perfect recklessness, and it was therefore useless to expect any increased civilisation.

Knowing the cutthroat's recklessness and his almost insane thirst for blood, he feared that this might happen.

His face became transformed, alive with a passion uncanny in its recklessness and purpose.

It would be lucky if more people had a supply of desirable recklessness, and things would have gone on much better.

The conduct of many of the men, French and English, seemed characterized by a recklessness verging on insanity.

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On this page you'll find 56 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to recklessness, such as: desperation, disregard, abandon, foolhardiness, and temerity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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