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recklessly

/rek-lis/US // ˈrɛk lɪs //UK // (ˈrɛklɪs) //

肆无忌惮地,不顾一切地,肆无忌惮,肆无忌惮的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : utterly unconcerned about the consequences of some action; without caution; careless: to be reckless of danger.
    • : characterized by or proceeding from such carelessness: reckless extravagance.

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Examples

  • San Diego residents have repeatedly pushed back on the board’s reckless land-use decisions.

  • The couple were arrested shortly after landing at Lihue Airport and now face second-degree reckless endangerment charges, a spokesperson with the Kauai Police Department told The Washington Post on Wednesday.

  • That makes all the more unforgivable the conduct of Georgia’s two Republican senators in making reckless charges about the integrity of the vote.

  • As with “Girls,” the show views one’s early 20s as an opportunity to make gallingly egregious errors, as reckless and sordid a phase as humanly possible.

  • The idea of boarding a plane to meet a potential business partner seems downright reckless.

  • By recklessly accusing your opponents of racism, you have turned back the clock on race relations in this country.

  • This claim, recklessly tossed about by those on the right, has been roundly dismissed by PolitiFact as false.

  • The symbolic vocabulary of Twin Peaks was properly literary, by which I mean it was personal, whimsical, and recklessly satirical.

  • In the past, faint-hearted politicians behaved in mostly sensible ways because they were afraid to act recklessly.

  • And, yet again, they have acted recklessly at the expense of the rest of Lebanon, and at the behest of their Iranian patrons.

  • "I'll tell you how we'll help it," I proposed recklessly, shouting to make myself heard above the noisy wind.

  • The most recklessly chivalrous terms are indeed consonant with Sir Edward's character.

  • A man, driving a cart recklessly, had almost come in contact with another cart, and some hard language ensued.

  • It was inevitable that those who would not recklessly ride upon its billows must be overwhelmed by its resistless surges.

  • Out, he threaded his way recklessly through a welter of vehicles and picked up the tail as his man entered an office building.