Preposition: of

• life: So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life.

• welfare: Did gambling make you careless of the welfare of your family?

• fact: They are controversialists, with a tendency to take extreme positions, and are often careless of facts and rash on predictions.

Preposition: about

• thing: All it showed was that some people in this business can be indiscreet and careless about the things they say.

Modifies a noun

• driving: In 1951, 29,000 offenses of careless driving were dealt with, a third of the current level.

• rapture: He gives himself up freely to his impressions, and there is a fine, careless rapture in his laughter.

• indifference: I cannot suffocate their plea for air with my careless indifference.

• whisper: Now I don't want to spread any careless whispers - it was Steve.

• riding: His rider, George Baker, picked up a two day ban for careless riding.

• handling: They are not merely the result of error or of careless handling of the text.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Cast of characters Gilbert Murray a rather careless veterinary surgeon who has dreams of opening his own animal sanctuary.

• so: Do not be so careless, for even in earthly war there is the need for covering.

• too: Indeed, perhaps in these times a belief in the ETH would be somehow dangerous, making us too careless of our own survival.

• little: Why don't you prevent him, you little careless creature?

• often: The story goes that she had a son called William who was often careless in his schoolwork.

• very: The editor of this volume is either very careless or ignorant with regard to names.

Used with adjective complement

• become: In certain cases, they may also become careless of their personal hygiene.

• get: First: When, a nation gets careless about God it gets careless about itself.

• seem: They seem careless in their attitudes to people infected or affected by HIV.

• grow: But you know how often a woman grows careless.