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n. - The trait of not being painstaking or careful; The quality of being willing to ignore the dictates of a governing set of ideas.

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  • Adjective : a conscientious judge. ,conscientious application to the work at hand
  • Indeed, if we must adjudge to French journalists the palm for gracefulness and sprightliness, we cannot withhold it from them for unconscientiousness.
  • An island is fine enough, in all conscience or piratic unconscientiousness, but an island in a river sounds like the beginning of the greatest adventure story on earth.
  • The nervous unconscientiousness of Duthil, threatened with denunciation, was seen to revive; so, too, the anxious anger of the Baron, who was meditating how he might...
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