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  • adverb In an uncaring manner

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Examples

  • Signs of a sidewalk rager include muttering or bumping into others; uncaringly hogging a walking lane; and acting in a hostile manner by staring, giving a "mean face" or approaching others too closely, says Leon James, a psychology professor at the University of Hawaii who studies pedestrian and driver aggression.

    Get Out of My Way, You Jerk! Shirley S. Wang 2011

  • Nor has this been for the most part because of extraordinary events such as the ongoing Gulf of Mexico catastrophe, but instead as a result of a million mundane decisions we have all made, unknowingly or uncaringly, to treat the ocean -- the planet -- as inexhaustible when it is not.

    Endangered sea: Julia Whitty's 'Deep Blue Home' and Paul Greenberg's 'Four Fish' 2010

  • Where nature blindly, uncaringly “selects” traits that lead to the survival of their bearers, ancestral humans have also selected traits—physical features and behaviors—that have led not just to the survival, but to the omnipresence of the modern dog, Canis familiaris, among us.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • Where nature blindly, uncaringly “selects” traits that lead to the survival of their bearers, ancestral humans have also selected traits—physical features and behaviors—that have led not just to the survival, but to the omnipresence of the modern dog, Canis familiaris, among us.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • At least 50,000 tons of this waste is from other countries, uncaringly dumped in India.

    Bharati Chaturvedi: Dismantling India's E-Waste: Potential for Green Jobs? 2009

  • So it is little wonder that one found that federal judges refused to do their duty, that Congressmen refused to do theirs, that universities uncaringly failed to educate, that businesses lie and cheated, that law firms did the same.

    Book Review: "Thine Alabaster Cities Gleam" 2008

  • I threw my school things uncaringly in the back bedroom, and my tin trunk crashed loudly on the concrete floor.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • Are they the product of the “garbage” sunflower seed eaters have tossed uncaringly to the wind?

    Wednesday Challenge: Meditations on a Lotus Blossom | Mind on Fire 2007

  • I threw my school things uncaringly in the back bedroom, and my tin trunk crashed loudly on the concrete floor.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • The countess incog. was leaning out, scanning the street uncaringly.

    Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

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