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Such warnings should not be heedlessly disregarded.
Mankind is heedlessly destroying the planet.
This led to instances of the archetypical encounter envisioned by the idiom, of an older homeowner's reprimand of careless or disrespectful teens heedlessly shortcutting across his highly valued lawn.
Cowboy is sometimes used today in a derogatory sense to describe someone who is reckless or ignores potential risks, irresponsible or who heedlessly handles a sensitive or dangerous task.
Do not let us heedlessly penalise them.
The cost falls upon those people who have the misfortune to be affected by the law that we make so heedlessly and lightly.
His task was to lead opinion, not heedlessly to follow it, to be a statesman rather than a narrow party politician.
The characteristics of our people are such that we never rush headstrong or heedlessly into anything, nor do we tiptoe.
I am saying it, not thoughtlessly or heedlessly, but after taking great trouble to find out what the likely result will be.
For all too long have we heedlessly tampered with nature’s delicate framework.
