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reckless

If you are reckless, you act without caring about problems your action might cause. Many teens are involved in high-risk behaviors such as smoking and reckless driving. I'm sorry I hurt so many people by my own reckless attitude and behaviour.

reckless

(= foolhardy, rash) marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans — Macaulay a reckless driver a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest (= heedless) characterized by careless unconcern the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes — Edith Wharton reckless squandering of public funds

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Simple sentences

Reckless driving will lead to an accident.
His reckless driving brought about his death.
The two men were arrested for reckless driving.
Tom is a reckless driver.
Tom is reckless.
Reckless driving can easily lead to an accident.
A sober-minded man adapts himself to outward things; a reckless man tries to adapt outward things to himself. That's why progress depends on reckless people.
Tom showed reckless disregard for Mary's feelings.
Jim drove too fast, which was reckless.
He had his license taken away because of reckless driving.
It was reckless of her to trust him.
He's reckless.

Movie subtitles

Don't do such reckless things.
And it's still possible that Nurse Crane may face charges of reckless driving or driving without due care and attention.
You might get to feeling reckless.
Aye. An impudent, reckless rogue.. whogoesaroundthe shire stirring up the Saxons against authority.
He's, well, he's brave and he's reckless, and yet he's gentle and kind.
I've met only one a reckless person who climbed the Glockner in a mist to..
You take the Reckless.
My ships, the Reckless and the Lady Bess. are waiting for me in Maracaibo now.
What's the use of having a little money if once in a while you can't be reckless with it on something you really want.
But tales of great salvage profits. have drawn reckless men to this dangerous harvest. spawn of the seven seas.
I thought you'd been reckless.
You're a reckless bully.
You were about to ask, Mr Marlowe, why I should be so reckless as to go out in the evening wearing an irreplaceable necklace.
It was wildly extravagant, I know, but having committed the crime. I suddenly felt reckless and gay.
Your comrade certainly is a reckless one.
An impudent, reckless rogue who goes around the shire stirring up the Saxons against authority.
Reckless youth!
We were young, gay, reckless.
The things I love in you most, your honesty, your reckless pride are the very things they would play upon, sweet.
Yves, you're reckless.
He was a man of dominating character. Arrogant, reckless, handsome and of a violent temper.
No one can feel safe living in a community. when there are reckless and irresponsible neurotics. wandering about its thoroughfares armed with deadly weapons.
Why not? Miss Birnley, you're the daughter of an industrialist. You must realise how reckless exploitation of anything new would upset the delicate balance of trade.
The thing about the fur coat was reckless enough, and now maybe getting into debt, really no, Heinrich.
Don't be so reckless.
An impudent, reckless rogue.. whogoesaroundthe shire stirring up the Saxons against authority.
Handsome, reckless, unreliable, athletic, selfish.
You are reckless and headstrong and. And I adore you, Captain.
You're a bit reckless today!
You're a reckless bully. Your words mean nothing to me.
You were about to ask, Mr. Marlowe, why I should be so reckless. as to go out in the evening wearing an irreplaceable necklace.
I completely understand how reckless my actions tonight were.
I am one, my liege, whom the vile blows and buffets of the world have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.
But I do know you will have to appear before another court in the person of the Archbishop, who believes your conduct to have been reckless and insubordinate.
I am sure you have your reasons but you must admit this is reckless even for your young age.
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News and current affairs

A reckless, right-wing Supreme Court has agreed with them.
Yet remarkably, Bush asked for, and got, a reckless tax cut for the rich.
Then there is the exposure of banks and other financial institutions to rising losses on loans that financed reckless leveraged buy-outs (LBOs).
Bush's response to the issue after it became public shows him to be focused on the trivial and morally reckless about the essential.
One thing is clear: if we are not to be totally reckless with our planet's climate, we cannot burn all the coal, oil, and natural gas that we have already located.
George W. Bush's economic policies have been based on an extraordinarily reckless gamble that reflects a political coalition of two major forces: the super-rich and evangelical Christians.
The problem is that Bush's reckless gamble has now built up considerable political momentum.
BEIJING - After nearly a month of belligerent bluster from North Korea, China appears to have had enough, ending its silence about North Korea's brinkmanship and suddenly roaring its disapproval of its ally's reckless threats.
We are setting ourselves up, without question, for another boom based on excessive and reckless risk-taking at the heart of the world's financial system.
But Germany's thrifty savers - households, banks, and insurance companies - are furious about ECB policies that tax them (and others in the eurozone core) to subsidize the eurozone periphery's alleged reckless spenders and debtors.
Omit either a market penalty now for behavior that may become reckless or the institutional levers that give a voice to future generations, and you run grave risks - perhaps not today or tomorrow, but someday, and for the rest of your life.
Its savings rate has been distressingly low for decades. Then the Bush administration's reckless fiscal policy pushed it lower.
Governments and citizens in Europe have paid - and are still paying - an astronomically high price for the reckless lending and investment of the 2000s.
Such reckless and irresponsible behavior abounded.
Reckless monetary and regulatory policies turned the humble abode into an ATM, allowing families to extract dollars from bubbles and live beyond their means.
Debt forgiveness raises thorny ethical concerns about condoning reckless and irresponsible behavior.
Following years of mismanagement and reckless lending, the bank was the first big victim of the commercial property market's decline in 1990.
Financial markets were eager to lend to these households, in part because the credit markets were deregulated, which served as an invitation to reckless lending.
Alternatively, China could shoulder some real responsibility for security in East Asia and close ranks against Kim and his reckless brinksmanship.
Such restrictions, of course, cut both ways - potentially limiting personal expression, but also constraining disguised and reckless vigilante attacks.
Or does he go far beyond that, governing Russia and dealing with his neighbors and the rest of the world with reckless mendacity, abetted by a supine national media?
Then the Bush administration's reckless fiscal policy pushed it lower.
China regularly warns Taiwan against any such reckless action, and the US puts the squeeze on the island's leaders whenever they seem to be getting too uppity with the mainland.
Greed has to be controlled by fear of loss, which derives from knowledge that the reckless institutions and agents will not be bailed out.
True, it requires great skill to walk the narrow line that separates effective deterrence from reckless action.
Two developments averted the nightmare of reckless nuclear proliferation.
Mind you, Japan's outsize government debt and undersize pension assets are a huge problem, and only the most reckless and crude Keynesian would advise the authorities to ignore it.

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