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reckless
[ rek-lis ]
reckless
/ ˈrɛklɪs /
adjective
- having or showing no regard for danger or consequences; heedless; rash
a reckless attempt
a reckless driver
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Derived Forms
- ˈrecklessness, noun
- ˈrecklessly, adverb
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Other Words From
- reck·less·ly adverb
- reck·less·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of reckless1
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Example Sentences
In 2002, he was arrested for reckless driving after swerving his SUV off the highway.
It starts with a bright, trebly guitar, sets the beat, and finally spins into a kind of reckless abandon.
And The Prize Is Death, a cartoon by Albert Levering, attacks an epidemic of reckless driving.
Some twits have gone on Twitter to suggest Spencer was being reckless when he went out bowling.
Sensational and often reckless reports in the press threaten the fairness of a trial.
But "the cards never forgive," and as a rule Dame Fortune is relentless to the reckless player.
Railroads are reckless Radicals and are destined by turns to make and to mar the fortunes of many great emporiums.
They say he was awfully wild and reckless at that time, and Liszt paid his debts over and over again.
Impudent and reckless us he had been all his life, he was now more timid and nervous than an hysterical girl.
But meanwhile they enjoyed themselves with the reckless prodigality possible only to such men.
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