1
as in carelessness
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2
as in insensitivity
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thoughtlessness
Noun
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Smith lightened the level of the indiscretion, which goes deeper in Molnar’s version.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
23 Mar. 2025 -
Ford hoped his suddenly patriotic electorate would forget about the province’s struggling hospitals and colleges, its bonkers traffic, and the indiscretions that have marked his tenure, including a real-estate scandal that is the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation.—
Chris Jones,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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There are blatantly far-fetched thrillers, brilliant ones, that haunt us for decades in spite of their narrative inelegance or the quality of their gotchas.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Sep. 2022
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Keeping the battery charged avoids this morsel of powertrain inelegance.—
Derek Powell,
Car and Driver,
19 Jan. 2022
Noun
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His coy narrative voice and audacious insouciance, thinly disguised under a patina of classical Oxford education and self-deprecating wit, amuse the reader for several hundred pages.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
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That showed the insouciance of someone who belongs.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
Noun
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With gleaming new infrastructure and a zeal for technological progress lacking in the United States, these regions show that the West is no longer exceptional in its embrace of progress, contrary to what Maine once posited.—
Zachariah Mampilly,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Apr. 2025
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And the zeal for thrifting appears to be only growing not just in central Virginia, but across the country.—
Kinsey Gidick,
USA Today,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Holly Wade, executive director of the organization’s research center, said the exuberance stemmed from her members’ expectations of favorable tax policy and relaxed regulations.—
Lydia DePillis,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
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Here, individual exuberance allied into a coherent whole.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Thoughtlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thoughtlessness. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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