Negligent, unconcerned

Usage examples of careless.

Daniel of Kiev in himself is a very ordinary and rather mendacious traveller, a harmless, devout pilgrim, as careless in all matters of fact as Antonine the Martyr.

Alps and the Apennine, might view with careless despair the consequences of a defeat under the walls of Rome.

Who was Rossmere to ride Ascot with such careless ease when Richard had met his death on the huge brute?

The contemporaries of Moses and Joshua had beheld with careless indifference the most amazing miracles.

Birdsong tucked up her hair in a careless knot, and reached out her arms for the filmy wrap Bena had brought from the guest room.

Probably heading up toward some herd above on Level One, hoping to snatch a newborn or to take a few bites out of a careless Youth straying too far from the edge of the group.

Your roads are so good, compared to our own rutted bogholes, that I was careless.

Instinctively I looked for a second bird but, shading my eyes, saw only the leavings of the workmen hired to restore the house, a careless litter of chisels, brick hammers, bullnose planes, handsaws.

It was very unlikely indeed that Bunsen had been careless with locks and bolts.

M Didius Falco, famous for ungracious behaviour, lived up to his reputation with careless ease.

When all had passed, the Genoese turned in his saddle, and cast an apparently careless look behind.

This was polite of them, but it made the Gobbler more careless than ever of the way in which he spoke.

La Seeks Vengeance Swinging back through the jungle in a wide circle the ape-man came to the river at another point, drank and took to the trees again and while he hunted, all oblivious of his past and careless of his future, there came through the dark jungles and the open, parklike places and across the wide meadows, where grazed the countless herbivora of the mysterious continent, a weird and terrible caravan in search of him.

Shirtless and hipshot, the man leaned in idle solitude upon the rail, gazing fixedly out to sea, out to the edge where the world stopped and the clean sheet of blue sky was stained with the faintest discoloration, a careless smudge of charcoal that seemed to suggest that somewhere over the horizon there was fire upon the water.

Men and horses had breaking points, and the High Wild, when a man or a horse grew careless, always won.