RECKLESSNESS Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

recklessness

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Recent Examples of recklessness Risk avoidance is a sure-fire way to prevent opportunities, but recklessness is the best way to destroy it. —

Seth Lederman, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026 These two teams have the worst disciplinary records in the Premier League — neither of them aggressive in any positive sense, but both lacking composure and prone to immaturity and recklessness when the pressure is on. —

Oliver Kay, New York Times, 15 May 2026 Westbrook’s recklessness was costly last year. —

Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 13 May 2026 The office of Porter County prosecutor Gary Germann charged Michael Luke Rone, 18, of Chesterton, with criminal recklessness, stemming from an April 15 incident in the Tamarack subdivision in Chesterton. —

Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026 But urgency can’t become recklessness. —

C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 11 May 2026 The criminal recklessness of these two defendants killed their own child. —

Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 9 May 2026 Throughout the nearly monthlong trial, the family’s legal team sought to depict Jones as an out-of-control officer, whose recklessness and disregard for police practices had brought about the girl’s death. —

Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026 Scheffler also made clear that Doral is not a course built for recklessness, especially as the wind firms things up over a weekend. —

Noah Gulley, Miami Herald, 2 May 2026

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The company has built its identity around taking AI safety more seriously than its rivals, creating sky-high expectations for model security that jar with its apparent carelessness; the fact that Mythos was exposed through such a basic and predictable failure only underscores that.

— Robert Hart, The Verge, 23 Apr. 2026
Most bark problems come from carelessness from mowing or weed-eating too close to the tree, stripping off the bark and allowing entry.

— Steve Bender, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026