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An act or instance of negligence or carelessness. remarking his beauties, ... I must also point out his negligences and defects. Blair.

Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order. "Be thou negligent of fame." Swift. He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. Rambler.

To be drowsy or dull; to be careless. Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. Pope.

Indifference; carelessness; coolness.

Indifferent; careless; cool.

In a nonchalant, indifferent, or careless manner; coolly.

A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the divine Being, or anything divine or sacred, by way of appeal or as a profane exclamation or ejaculation; an expression of profane swearing. "A terrible oath" Shak.

Sleepy; drowsy; dull; sluggish; careless. He must not be oscitant, but intent on his charge. Barrow.

The quality or state of being overly; carelessness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Careless; negligent; inattentive; superfical; not thorough. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.

To slip or slide over; to pass easily or carelessly beyond; to omit; to neglect; as, to overslip time or opportunity.

In a perfunctory manner; formally; carelessly. Boyle.

one merely to get rid of a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions. Macaulay.

A careless or inaccurate delineation of anything. Etym: [R.]

coin, and calling "Heads or tails;" hence: To play pitch and toss with (anything), to be careless or trust to luck about it. "To play pitch and toss with the property of the country." G. Eliot. -- Pitch farthing. See Chuck farthing, under 5th Chuck.

To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless. "Nay," quod this monk, "I have no lust to pleye." Chaucer. Men are apt to play with their healths. Sir W. Temple.

A careless person; a trifler. [R.]

Carelessness; apathy; indifference. [R.] Carlyle.

walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world. He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness, what is his liberty better than if driven up and down as a bubble by the w…

Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent. Chaucer.