heedless

Example Sentences

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She said the new working plans were being implemented in a "heavy-handed way, heedless of the consequences".

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2024

But what if just the opposite of this heedless obituary for the avant-garde is true?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2024

Even among the irrepressible talents of his co-stars, Perry stood out, for a rubbery, heedless way with physical comedy and a split-second timing that most stopwatches would envy.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2023

If you are, let’s say, a rangy 5-feet-11-inches, with an athlete’s build, burnished skin and a heedless, sad-eyed charisma that makes audiences lean in so far they fall over, Hollywood offers smoother paths.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2023

And he took the meat out of the pot with his two fingers and threw it upon the ground and was heedless of the younger lad’s howling.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck