careless
/ˈkeələs/ adjectiveDefinition
› not giving enough attention to what you are doing: It was very careless of you to forget your passport. He was fined £250 for careless driving.
carelessly adverb carelessness noun [U] (Definition of careless adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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