Definition of Reckless

Reckless

Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent.

Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless.

Related Definitions:

Careless, Duty, Heedless, Inattentive, Indifferent, Neglectful, Negligent, Or, Rashly, To, Utterly

Reckless Quotations

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl Marx

President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.
Mitt Romney

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
William Butler Yeats

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.
Angelina Jolie

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Eric Hoffer

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
Desiderius Erasmus

I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.
Lou Gramm

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
Christopher Lasch

They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.
Lillie Langtry

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.
Chris Christie

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.
Steve Ballmer

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.
Jennifer Capriati

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
J. William Fulbright

People think I'm crazy and reckless but I'm absolutely not... I'm soooo safe and soooo careful and I won't do anything that feels like I could break something.
Catherine Bell

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
Blanche Lincoln

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.
Sherrod Brown

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Luc de Clapiers

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
Robert Dale Owen

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
Henry George

The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline.
Debbie Stabenow

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
Larry Elder

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.
Steve Coogan

I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
Gail Porter

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
Mary Schmich

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!
Nigel Dennis

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
James Dickey

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
Mary Chesnut

Everything I do, I do with reckless abandon.
Jolene Blalock

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Reckless Translations

reckless in German is waghalsig
reckless in Italian is spericolato
reckless in Spanish is temerario

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