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UK
/θˈɔːtləsnəs/
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NOUN
- the quality of failing to be considerate of others
- the trait of not thinking carefully before acting
How To Use thoughtlessness In A Sentence
- First-person animal narrators often expose the thoughtlessness of human beings toward non-human animals.
- Richard was anxious to atone for his thoughtlessness.
- The thoughtlessness which can allow an inference to be extended from a product of disease possessing this susceptibility of multiplication when conveyed into the living body, to substances of inorganic origin, such as silex or sulphur, would be capable of arguing that a pebble may produce a mountain, because an acorn can become a forest. Medical Essays, 1842-1882
- The sin of thoughtlessness shall be beaten with fewer stripes than the sin of deliberation, -- but it shall be _beaten_, and therefore it is _sin_. Sermons to the Natural Man
- I should have done you a greater service had I pointed out to you its thoughtlessness, its inconsequence, and its want of comprehension.
- He spent six weeks in a living hell all because of his thoughtlessness!
- * The judgment against Eichmann speaks to Bybee: Far from absolving him of guilt, his remoteness from the actual torturers — his thoughtlessness — increases the degree of his responsibility. Another Monday Linkdump « Gerry Canavan
- His offended love, and Malvolio's humiliated suffering, are reminders of the harm done by mistake, mischance, drink, thoughtlessness and unkindness.
- In my own case, I recollect acts performed by older persons in ignorance and thoughtlessness which undoubtedly tended to foster and strengthen my algolagnic instinct. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
- But disabled people believe the biggest obstacles they face are mental ones-the prejudices and thoughtlessness of able-bodied people.