Crossword clues for carelessly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carelessly \Care"less*ly\, adv. In a careless manner.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 Giving the appearance of carelessness; relaxedly. 2 Done without care or attention; inattentively.
WordNet
adv. without care or concern; "carelessly raised the children's hopes without thinking of their possible disappointment" [syn: heedlessly]
without caution or prudence; "one unfortunately sees historic features carelessly lost when estates fall into unsympathetic hands" [syn: incautiously] [ant: cautiously, cautiously]
in a rakish manner; "she wore her hat rakishly at an angle" [syn: rakishly, raffishly]
Usage examples of "carelessly".
If I have put you on the course to Abaddon by carelessly speaking, I am sorry.
Upon the rug, strewn about her carelessly, their bright discs adance with reflected light, a thousand minted gold pieces caught the glint of the low sun.
Shortly Alfred backed off her and got to his feet, leaving her asprawl, carelessly naked, her pale skin flushed pink throughout, eyes closed, smile pursing upper lips whilst semen glittered between lower.
His tunic was open at the throat and carelessly baggy at the beltline, around a sidearm, but his stance bespoke discipline.
Marc got up to go very shortly after they had finished their meal, kissed his grandmother, patted Claribel on a shoulder in a casual manner, saying carelessly that he would doubtless see her at some time or other, and took himself off.
The yards hung, as seamen term it, a cockbill, or in such negligent and picturesque positions as an artist would most love to draw, while the drapery of the canvass was suspended in graceful and spotless festoons, as it had fallen by chance, or been cast carelessly from the hands of the boatmen.
Listener spotted a gaggle of juvenile coelurosaurs, gamely stalking their prey among the tree-trunk legs of the herbivores, at every moment risking death from a carelessly placed footfall or tail twitch.
The committeemen eyed him almost carelessly, as though their interest in him was slight.
Droplets of water glistened in the dark-brown depths and then fell to the floor at his feet as Cottrell carelessly scattered them with the movement of his large, blunt fingers.
The little Arab, playing carelessly upon his pipe with the red arabesques, was soon invisible among his goats beside the dry water-course that was probably the limit of his journeying, but Domini felt that like a musician at the head of a procession he had played her bravely forward into the dawn and Africa.
But Domini could act vigorously, and quite carelessly, when she was moved.
Inside the shop, Girard heard nothing but the bell-like clamor of the tins striking each other as the German footmen hurled them carelessly into the wain.
That lecture on creationism had been a gift by Huro, rich with too much knowledge, a bauble tossed carelessly away by a man come to advise on sewage.
As coolly as though it were but a dog that Jack had slain with that tremendous blow, the Strangler lifted the dead Kachin and tossed him carelessly aside.
The sun climbed arrogantly up to his place above all other things, and as Hagadorn took off his skates and glanced carelessly lakeward, he beheld a great wind-rift in the ice, and the waves showing blue and hungry between white fields.