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heedful
adjective as in attentive
Strong match
Weak matches
Example Sentences
This is not the behavior of a legitimate government, much less of a ruling group seemingly heedful of the repeated admonitions — from the United States and other democratic governments — that its access to financial support and diplomatic recognition hinge on respect for human rights.
Mrs. Wemmick, more heedful of the future, put her white gloves in her pocket and assumed her green.
Kai, appearing both accustomed to the attention and heedful of it, tended to end each exchange with a playful laugh and the same message: “Have fun, OK?”
A more heedful scientist might have surveyed the Chinese data and begun preparations for tests of his own.
Several people in the corporate world offered an even more depressing version of this story: companies are sidling away from third-party certifiers because their optimistic project – the idea that the market can be heedful of its own abuses and correct itself – has, in a grand sense, failed.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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