recklessness

noun

as in carelessness

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Recent Examples of recklessness Catherine’s story line evokes a feverish what-if scenario in which a survivor musters the requisite recklessness, talent for murder, and wig collection to mete out retribution. — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 30 July 2026 In humans, traits such as neuroticism and recklessness appear to have some evolutionary basis—emerging perhaps to provide our species with sentries who alerted us to threats, and with explorers who led the way to new food sources. — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026 Babitz courted danger with heedless bravado and exemplary recklessness. — Steve Wasserman, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026 Lateshia Adams, 45, pleaded guilty in May to criminal recklessness, a Level 6 felony, and misdemeanor operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person. — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2026 Or Rhaena’s recklessness, which killed the crown prince? — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026 Nationalist fervor over beating China biases AI policy toward recklessness — and possible catastrophe. — Robert Wright, Washington Post, 26 June 2026 The considered yes is not recklessness. — Annette Logan-Parker, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 Sublime were always close to death and the threat of violence; their music was basically powered by the recklessness of their lifestyle. — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for recklessness
  1. carelessness
  2. rashness
  3. wildness
  4. negligence
  5. heedlessness
  6. laxness
  7. irresponsibility
Noun
  • Some of those losses stemmed from carelessness, with his supreme confidence occasionally straying into casualness.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • Once, administrators confronted him about the carelessness of his grading.
    — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
Definition of carelessness
Noun
  • And yet, Washington responded to Genet not with rashness and bravado but with restraint made public law.
    — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2026
  • His audacity and her rashness might surprise some.
    — Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
Definition of rashness
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  • There was a wildness in it, something animal that had slipped free.
    — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 25 July 2026
  • Until, that is, the play’s rather retrograde climax, when the playwright’s provocateur wildness goes limp.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
Definition of wildness
Noun
  • Most of the negligence cases involved farm work carried out despite local bans, including welding.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles last fall sued SoCal Edison alleging the company’s negligence caused the Eaton Fire and another blaze, seeking to recover tens of millions of dollars in damage to thousands of acres of Angeles National Forest Land.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of negligence
Noun
  • Holden’s moral rigor is refreshing in a cultural moment marked by an unsettling mix of cynicism and heedlessness.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
  • The heedlessness of the children has touched her mood.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
Definition of heedlessness
Noun
  • Still, being private isn’t a license to let laxness creep in.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026
Definition of laxness
Noun
  • Desirée can so often come off a bundle of cliches of actresses of a certain age, all narcissism, hedonism and irresponsibility.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • The most probable path remains the baseline he’s been describing since last fall — debt grinding steadily higher, periodically goosed by crises or political irresponsibility, but partially offset by technological progress and labor force growth.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 May 2026
Definition of irresponsibility

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