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Example sentences for "thoughtlessly"

Lexicographically close words:
thoughtest; thoughtful; thoughtfully; thoughtfulness; thoughtless; thoughtlessness; thoughts; thoult; thous; thousand
  1. You arm yourself with a corkscrew, open the basket, and thoughtlessly tip it over, when two or three human heads, with a pained and grieved expression on the face, roll out on the table.

  2. How often do we thoughtlessly grieve the hearts of those who love us, and drive forth into the pitiless world those who would gladly lick our hands with their warm loving tongues, or warm their cold noses in the meshes of our necks.

  3. When I was nearly back at the hotel it flashed upon me that it had been small Swedish notes--all the money that I had changed for my stay in Stockholm--that I had been carrying loose in my pocket and had so thoughtlessly thrown away.

  4. So thoughtlessly did people continue to feed the Danish public with the food to which it was accustomed.

  5. Clifford thoughtlessly threw it open, and a woman in evening dress, very decolletée, swept by him into the box, with a waft of sickly scented air.

  6. Ruth thoughtlessly slipped after him and murmured over his shoulder: "Friend of yours?

  7. The fisherman does his work just as thoughtlessly as the hunter whose business it is to supply the market.

  8. One of them thoughtlessly throws away a lighted cigarette, which falls upon some dry pine needles.

  9. A young man studious to know his duty, and honestly bent on doing it, will find himself led away from the sin or folly in which the multitude thoughtlessly indulge themselves; but, ah!

  10. They study biology and anthropology, but they fail to study sociology, and thoughtlessly become the followers of bourgeois ideologists.

  11. The usual advice to women to seek their salvation in marriage, this being their true profession, is thoughtlessly approved of by the vast majority of men.

  12. If modern marriages were more distinctly upon a religious basis, it is likely that many persons who now rush thoughtlessly into marriage would be led seriously to reflect upon the significance of the step.

  13. She has only to recall the sentence, which she confesses to have been hastily and thoughtlessly pronounced, and no power on earth shall sever me from her side.

  14. Next morning was I to go to my father, to repair as much as possible the breach I had thoughtlessly made in his happiness.

  15. Now at that time the Bhikkhus kept their bowls on their laps; and rising up thoughtlessly they upset them, and the bowls were broken.

  16. Now at that time the Bhikkhus put their bowls down on a bed, or a chair; and sitting down thoughtlessly they upset them, and the bowls were broken.

  17. A newspaper man is the architect of some splendid structures, but he thoughtlessly builds on the sand when the tide is out.

  18. I thoughtlessly yelled in English, "where the devil are you going?

  19. Yes, I must, even at the expense of the oath I so thoughtlessly took.

  20. Then, as you love me, never again give utterance to the subject you have so thoughtlessly touched upon, for it is one on which I cannot trust my feelings.

  21. Dear Dad, you know a man does not rush thoughtlessly into marriage at my age, so do not be anxious.

  22. I gave way thoughtlessly to her first expressions of love; I ought never to have replied to them.

  23. It arouses the patriotism of the large Conservative party, and enlists the favour of many others who thoughtlessly follow an attractive fashion, and who love the first fruits of early Spring.

  24. Its showy flower is so attractive to the eye, whilst its inner juice is noxious, and stains the hands of those who thoughtlessly crush it with their fingers.

  25. She was one of the fondest of mothers, but not thoughtlessly indulgent to the boy from whom she hoped and expected more than she thought it wise to let him know.

  26. If at any time I faltered, quoting him too often on the political problems of the day, or thoughtlessly rereading his letters in Jessica's presence, she reminded me of Katrina.

  27. The exception seemingly occurred somewhere in the Dark Valley, where a mountain woman, seeing her fly by, had thoughtlessly urged her to stop and buy a glass of goat's milk.

  28. He searched for and found the morning newspaper, thoughtlessly dropped in the waste-paper basket by the maid, and he read aloud to us a paragraph to which Katrina had referred chronicling the achievements of a classmate of ours.

  29. Gerelda smiled and promised, thoughtlessly enough, that she would comply.

  30. She had kissed the little prayer-book as she had so laughingly and thoughtlessly promised to do, ere she uttered the words that would make her Hubert Varrick's wife.

  31. He passed close by his companions, who were thoughtlessly laughing and talking as before, and on he rapidly floated, they neither observing him nor the Genius of the Atmosphere.

  32. As he passed near the cottage of a peasant, he was attracted by the sight of a peculiar species of stone, and thoughtlessly broke a piece of it.

  33. And thus, too, will it be with those who wilfully, or even thoughtlessly neglect the great salvation--those who reject the overtures of pardoning mercy and salvation by Christ.

  34. I discovered that I had thoughtlessly come away without a match, and being unfamiliar with the territory, had no idea in which direction the house stood.

  35. After digging out our trunks and changing our clothes we thoughtlessly laid our cast-off garments on top of the cargo, with the result that in a short time the whole boat was infested with the little pests.

  36. But what would happen if she thoughtlessly accepted all that his sympathy might offer?

  37. And let me ask your pardon if I have thoughtlessly intruded on you.

  38. As we ran thoughtlessly on, very little moved by these sights, to which even the youngsters were becoming familiar, I heard a deep groan.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thoughtlessly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anyhow; carelessly; clumsily; hastily; heedlessly; inadvertently; involuntarily; offhand; recklessly; spur