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- adjective
superlative form ofcareless : mostcareless .
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Examples
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The May-flies must surely be the lotus-eaters of the ephemerae — the happiest, laziest, carelessest fly that dances and dreams out his few hours of sunshiny life by English rivers.
Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971
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Well, I was getting to feel that way myself, though I've always reckoned that looking at the new moon over your left shoulder is one of the carelessest and foolishest things a body can do.
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Well, I was getting to feel that way myself, though I've always reckoned that looking at the new moon over your left shoulder is one of the carelessest and foolishest things a body can do.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872
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Well, I was getting to feel that way myself, though I've always reckoned that looking at the new moon over your left shoulder is one of the carelessest and foolishest things a body can do.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 06 to 10 Mark Twain 1872
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Shelley is represented by this biographer as doing a great many careless things, but to my mind this hiring a furnished house for three months in order to be with a man who has been dead a year, is the carelessest of them all.
In Defence of Harriet Shelley Mark Twain 1872
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I’ve always reckoned that looking at the new moon over your left shoulder is one of the carelessest and foolishest things a body can do.
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