Sentence examples for mere carelessness from inspiring English sources

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Was it mere carelessness that when Fredric March won the 1931-32 best actor award for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," nobody on the committee noticed, until the ceremony itself, that Wallace Beery had come in only one vote short -- which under the rules of the day (subsequently changed) meant that the two men had tied?

When writing in this way he is in fact often using grammatical-rhetorical figures which can easily look like mere carelessness to an untutored eye but which receive high literary sanction from classical sources and are employed by him artfully (e.g. anacoluthon).

Lastly, the observed inaccuracy in reporting of trial information may have other reasons such as different authors of protocols and publications, long time lags between the writing of protocols and publications, or mere carelessness in drafting manuscripts.

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for carelessness.

Dylan: Carelessness.

"This was pure carelessness.

First, unbelievable carelessness.

What abject carelessness!

Carelessness on part of bird.

Losing two would be carelessness.

But the carelessness was demoralizing".

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