Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being inconsiderate; thoughtlessness; want of consideration: as, “the inconsideracy of youth.”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Inconsiderateness; thoughtlessness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The quality of being
inconsiderate ;thoughtlessness .
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Examples
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This is the common effect of the inconsideracy of youth, against which I beg you will be most carefully upon your guard.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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- The inconsideracy of some people to call me from a party that I wasn't invited to and talk about how much fun they're having.
Talking things about that special one; they may be stupid but they sure are fun. grassbrace 2002
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But the past was irrevocable; and the remorse he felt for his neglect and inconsideracy, as his native land receded from his view, still further embittered a spirit surcharged with grief.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro
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This is the common effect of the inconsideracy of youth, against which I beg you will be most carefully upon your guard.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1748 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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This is the common effect of the inconsideracy of youth, against which I beg you will be most carefully upon your guard.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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