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carelessest

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carelessest

  1. superlative form of careless: most careless
    • 1872, James De Mille, The Dodge Club[1]:
      On the contrary, taken as a whole, they form the oiliest, fattest, drollest, noisiest, sleekest, dirtiest, ignorantest, prejudicedest, narrow-mindedest, shirtlessest, clotheslessest, idlest, carelessest, jolliest, absurdest, rascaliest--but still, all that, perhaps--taken all in all--the happiest community on the face of the earth.
    • 1884, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part 2[2]:
      Well, I was getting to feel that way myself, though I've always reckoned that looking at the new moon over your left shoulder is one of the carelessest and foolishest things a body can do.
    • 1891, Addison and Steele, The Spectator, Volume 2.[3]:
      I am the carelessest Creature in the World, I have certainly the worst Memory of any Man living, are frequent Expressions in the Mouth of a Pretender of this sort.