heedlessness

• Dictionary definitions Norris provides include heedlessness, torpor, a non-caring state, anxiety, grief, the deadly sin of sloth, spiritual torpor and apathy, a mental syndrome, the chief features of which are listlessness, carelessness, apathy, and melancholia. —  The Wine Dark Sea
• The result of his heedlessness is one of the grimmest spots in English colonial history Sidenote: 1759--James Wolfe Braddock's forces were cut to pieces: very few of his stout thousand escaped to spread horror through the English colonies by the news of their misfortunes. —  A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
• The great defects in his disposition were heedlessness, and an under estimate of his own power; he did not stop to think before he acted, as many more cautious dogs will do; and he forgot that his weight was so great as to spoil and crush whatever he laid himself upon. —  Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals
• This mode of address answers for all the little acts of heedlessness, awkwardness, or ill-manners, so frequently occurring, with children. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
• "You, Mr Spellman, should not have struck the boy for his heedlessness, and you, Mr Merry, should not have taken the law into your own hands. —  Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days

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