drop carelessly
Frequency: 7.24.5 per million words
to let something fall because you are not being careful.
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- He tends to drop his keys carelessly on the table when he gets home.
- She carelessly dropped her phone, and the screen cracked.
- I was rushing and carelessly dropped the pile of books I was carrying.
- Be careful, or you'll carelessly drop that expensive vase.
- Carelessly dropping litter on the street is a fineable offense.
- The child carelessly dropped his ice cream cone on the sidewalk.
- He carelessly dropped a hint about the surprise party, almost ruining it.
- Don't carelessly drop your bag on the wet floor.
- Absorbed in his thoughts, he carelessly dropped the letter into the wrong mailbox.
- By the time he realized his mistake, he had already carelessly dropped the evidence into the shredder.