Recklessly
['rɛklɪsli]
Examples
- Mr. Rochester continued, hardily and recklessly: Bigamy is an ugly word! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At one point the grade dropped some sixty feet in a distance of three hundred, and the curves were of recklessly short radius. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and Mr. Huskisson were among those who were walking on the railway, when one of the engines was recklessly put in action, and propelled along the line. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He no longer drank cautiously, prudently, but imprudently and recklessly. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He had taken a seat at my work-table; he now laid hands on a reel of thread which he proceeded recklessly to unwind. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Retaining the letterI recklessly altered the spirit of the _r?le_. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I wish I could drag the chair, she broke out, recklessly. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Especially it was to be expected, as the landlady of the Tankard had said, that he would recklessly cut up their dead bodies. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We even steamed recklessly by the frowning fortress of Malabat (a stronghold of the Emperor of Morocco) without a twinge of fear. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She had promised to love him for better or worse, and then she, his wife, had reproached him with his poverty, after spending his earnings recklessly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Typist: Owen