heedlessness
- a word derived from heedless.
Example Sentences
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KK, the greatest in the Holy Koran, they give us a verse that says, man’s biggest flaw, his biggest weakness, is heedlessness.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2022
Certainly there are other years or periods in which stupidity or heedlessness brought civilization in general close to eradication.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2021
The cascade of cases carries an unavoidable sense of Greek tragedy, of characters finally dragged down by their own heedlessness.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2020
He spied in their ambition, in their enthralment with the capacities of computers, the wide-eyed heedlessness that remains Silicon Valley’s Achilles heel.
From Nature ● Sep. 15, 2020
Its activities had saved the fruit growers several millions of dollars a year, but in a moment of heedlessness the benefit was canceled out.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
