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Rashly vs Recklessly - What's the difference?

rashly | recklessly |

As adverbs the difference between rashly and recklessly

is that rashly is in a rash manner; with precipitation; hastily; presumptuously; at a venture while recklessly is in a reckless manner, without regard for cost or consequence.

rashly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • in a rash manner; with precipitation; hastily; presumptuously; at a venture
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
  • he'll say that we're contradicting what was said just now when we rashly maintain that there are falsehoods in judgements and statements.

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    recklessly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a reckless manner, without regard for cost or consequence.
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  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
  • With contempt for the rights, feelings, or well-being of others.