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Example sentences for "thoughtlessness"

Lexicographically close words:
thoughtful; thoughtfully; thoughtfulness; thoughtless; thoughtlessly; thoughts; thoult; thous; thousand; thousande
  1. There is much misery of this kind caused in country places by the thoughtlessness of farmers.

  2. It is often thoughtlessness rather than poverty that prevents those who live in the large house of the village from being really loved by those around them.

  3. The little fellow felt attracted by the colors of the glowing iron, till with the thoughtlessness of childhood he sometimes tried to pick up the fragments that glowed on the ground like fallen stars.

  4. The sin of thoughtlessness or inconsideration is a neglect or contempt of the means of arriving at a wise decision.

  5. He is not guilty of thoughtlessness who has not the opportunity of judging, or who lacks sufficient knowledge, or who is taken unawares; nor is he guilty of temptation of God, if in such difficulties he commits all to Providence.

  6. A true relation of the thoughtlessness of youth, and the artifices whereby women enthrall their lovers.

  7. Not all will like myself proceed-- And thoughtlessness to woe might lead.

  8. Poor Morris, how my thoughtlessness must have wounded him," she murmured, and then all the pent up passion in Wilford's heart burst out in an impetuous storm.

  9. But, thoughtlessness will not excuse sin; though, it is a somewhat less extreme form of it, than deliberate transgression.

  10. The most thoughtless and inactive man, in religious respects, will acknowledge that thoughtlessness and inactivity if continued will end in perdition.

  11. In the second place, we see from the subject, that thoughtlessness in sin will never excuse sin.

  12. His usual thoughtlessness and torpidity upon the subject of religion leaves him, and he becomes a serious and deeply-interested creature.

  13. The sin of thoughtlessness shall be beaten with fewer stripes than the sin of deliberation,--but it shall be beaten, and therefore it is sin.

  14. There are no states of thoughtlessness and unconcern in the future life, because there is not an instant of forgetfulness or ignorance of the personal character and condition.

  15. The almost universal indifference and thoughtlessness with which men live on in a worldly and selfish life, will not excuse them in the day of accurate accounts.

  16. The sin of ignorance and thoughtlessness is the species which is most common.

  17. Our great pleasure was in our collections, and his at that time far surpassed mine, which I have been enabled to enlarge so considerably only by the thoughtlessness of his son.

  18. How can your perverse heart find in itself publicly to calumniate the man by whose benefits you have been enriched, and of whose thoughtlessness you take advantage, in order with your helpmates to plunge him into misery?

  19. Upon this subject nothing is so absurd as indifference; no folly so contemptible as thoughtlessness and levity.

  20. They consider them in the first place, as productive of a kind of frivolous levity, and of thoughtlessness with respect to the important duties of life.

  21. They did not make any allowance for the momentary thoughtlessness due to an emotional nature.

  22. Its members have sufficient culture and taste to distinguish the thoughtlessness of a morally healthy artist from the vile speculation of a scribbling ruffian.

  23. Scarlet fever dropsy, which is really a formidable disease, generally arises from, the carelessness, the ignorance, and the thoughtlessness of parents in allowing a child to leave the house before the new skin be properly formed and hardened.

  24. His thoughtlessness very often led him into error and its disagreeable consequences; and, fearing this had again been the case, she playfully inquired the cause of his most unusual abstraction.

  25. He cursed his thoughtlessness again and again, and would have retraced his steps immediately, but the papers with which he was intrusted had to be delivered at Plymouth by a certain hour, and he could not do it.

  26. First, what is meant by the supporting activity of training becomes clearer if we recall the remarks made concerning memory of the will (147) as opposed to the thoughtlessness usually ascribed to youth.

  27. It was no doubt in thoughtlessness that he offended, but would such thoughtlessness be possible in a True-Believer--in one worthy to be dubbed by thee the champion of the Prophet's Holy Law?

  28. I paid dearly for my thoughtlessness more than once.

  29. With the thoughtlessness characteristic of a half fool, I hurled a stone after it, with the usual result of frightening it and so losing a golden opportunity to observe a rather rare bird at a most unusual season.

  30. But even for his thoughtlessness the kind heart of Jenny found an excuse.

  31. The teacher was often wroth with the thoughtlessness of his pupil; and in his displeasure said, "It is nonsense, sirrah, to say that ye was ever a Spaniard.

  32. Upon this view sin is the blundering of inexperience, the thoughtlessness that takes evil for good, the ignorance that puts its fingers into the fire, the stumbling without which one cannot learn to walk.

  33. The sin-offering = sacrifice to expiate sins of ignorance (thoughtlessness and plausible temptation): Lev.

  34. You cannot wish to punish my thoughtlessness of this evening so cruelly!

  35. I would cheerfully turn my back upon the paradise of naive thoughtlessness and harmless orthodoxy, after having, tasted of the tree of knowledge.

  36. I have told Elsie, and she feels she is directly responsible for her condition, and bemoans her thoughtlessness in ever telling Tim what she saw in her hand.

  37. Doctor Phelps listened like a father to Elsie's confession of her thoughtlessness in giving Tim such a nervous shock.

  38. At the very moment of his entrance to the cloak-room he was mentally censuring himself for his almost criminal thoughtlessness for the consideration of others.

  39. Thus erosion causes a tremendous loss to farmers, and it is chiefly due to the thoughtlessness of the American people in destroying the forests.

  40. As we have before observed, profligate as he was by thoughtlessness of character and license of social position, he was neither heartless nor criminal by nature.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thoughtlessness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandon; buffoonery; caprice; carelessness; childishness; disregard; distraction; eccentricity; fatuity; flippancy; folly; foolery; foolishness; forgetfulness; frivolity; hastiness; idiocy; imbecility; immaturity; improvidence; imprudence; inability; inadequacy; inadvertence; inanity; inaptitude; inattention; incapability; incapacity; incompetence; indifference; indiscretion; ineffectiveness; inefficiency; ineptitude; insanity; insouciance; irrationality; laziness; levity; lunacy; madness; maladjustment; mediocrity; negligence; oblivion; passivity; puerility; quietism; recklessness; shallowness; shiftlessness; stuffiness; stupidity; superficiality; thoughtlessness; tranquillity; triviality; unpreparedness; unreason; unreasonableness; vacancy; volatility