Example sentences for: carelessly

How can you use “carelessly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Forty years ago, before a sizable emigration from Mexico into New Mexico, in this state the Spanish-speaking element of the population carelessly called itself mexicano , as some of the older Hispanics still do, though New Mexico had not been part of Mexico for more than a century and then for only about a quarter of a century after New Spain became the Mexican Republic.

  • It therefore carries a surprising number of obsolete and archaic words, and it is difficult to tell whether they are in because they were common in American English, in American English spoken in the Midwest, or simply carelessly retained from an earlier dictionary which was not properly edited.

  • One learns to take responsibility for almost any unwanted "surprise"--not just death but an unexpected infection, a dressing applied carelessly, anything.

  • What they didn't carelessly discard they packed in salt and shipped to the tables of Europe's great nobles.

  • Style in dictionaries is not a nasty little detail: it is a quick way of categorizing information, and if a label appears in an unfamiliar place, its placement ought to convey to the user some special piece of information, not the fact that the book was carelessly compiled.


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