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recklessness

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12 lettersPart of speech nounSorted ceeeklnrssssStarts with REnds with S0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the trait of giving little thought to danger

Word origin

From Middle English reklesnes, reklesnesse, rekelesnesse (also assibilated as rechelesnes, reccheleesnesse), from Old English rēcelēasnes (“recklessness, carelessness, negligence”), equivalent to reckless + -ness.

Used in a sentence

  • His recklessness repeatedly put him in danger.
  • At such times, how we marvel at our usual recklessness, and pause, as it were, shrinking from the busy and inevitable current which is hurrying us on to eternity!
  • Then, in a state of recklessness, engendered by such luxurious living, he bought another of stout and retired to William Street with it secreted under his coat.

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