heedless

adjective heed·less \ ˈhēd-ləs \

Definition of heedless

:not taking heed :inconsiderate, thoughtless

heedless follies of unbridled youth
—John DeBruyn

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heedlessly

adverb

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heedlessness

noun

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Examples of heedless in a Sentence

They remain heedless of their own safety.
the heedless use of natural resources

Recent Examples of heedless from the Web

But this film also demonstrates what a miscarriage of justice feels like from the inside, becoming a powerful indictment of how much damage a heedless and uncaring system can do to an impotent individual caught in its grinding wheels.

— kenneth turan, latimes.com, "'Crown Heights' tells a timely, fact-based tale of wrongful incarceration," 24 Aug. 2017
But, in the event that state or federal investigators do examine the legality of Icahn’s role in the early days of the Trump Administration, this heedless revisionism is unlikely to withstand scrutiny.

— bess levin, vanityfair.com, "Can the White House Buy Its Way Out of Trump’s Neo-Nazi Problem?," 21 Aug. 2017
These include heedless deregulation and, most recently, a mania to erase the achievements of the Obama administration from the statute books and, by all indications, from the mind of humankind.

— charles p. pierce, Esquire, "You Can't Blame This Bit of Conservative Cruelty on Trump," 7 Aug. 2017
Bannon is astute enough to discern Trump’s desires and heedless enough to carry it out.

— james hohmann, Washington Post, "The Daily 202: Trump aides learn the perils of speaking for a president who changes his story," 10 July 2017
Bannon is astute enough to discern Trump’s desires and heedless enough to carry it out.

— joshua green, Daily Intelligencer, "Steve Bannon Is Out of Trump’s Doghouse and Leading the Charge Against Mueller," 9 July 2017
Others are heedless of consequences for anyone but their supporters and donors.

— david frum, The Atlantic, "The Souring of American Exceptionalism," 3 July 2017
That is why autonomy—the emerging science of self-piloting automobiles—will be good for everybody: good for these heedless overachievers and good for those who might be in their way.

— dan neil, WSJ, "Not Quite a Self-Driving Car...But Close," 15 June 2017
Today, Science Fiction and Fact could be the motto for South Korea, a place where the future rushes into the present completely heedless of the past.

— gary shteyngart, Smithsonian, "A Visit to Seoul Brings Our Writer Face-to-Face With the Future of Robots," 23 May 2017

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