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Synonyms for carelessly

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · adverb

The senseadverbTier 5, Summit

without caution or prudence

One unfortunately sees historic features carelessly lost when estates fall into unsympathetic hands.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

incautiously

Same sentence, swapped: One unfortunately sees historic features incautiously lost when estates fall into unsympathetic hands.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for carelessly as it is used in the sentence above.

cautiously
hastily
carefully

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