Antonyms for carefullycare·ful·ly

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1. carefullyadverb

   taking care or paying attention

   "they watched carefully"

   Antonyms:
   carelessly, incautiously

   Synonyms:
   cautiously

2. cautiously, carefullyadverb

   as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact

   "she ventured cautiously downstairs"; "they handled the incident with kid gloves"

   Antonyms:
   incautiously, carelessly

   Synonyms:
   guardedly, conservatively, cautiously

How to use carefully in a sentence?

1. Philip Hammond:

   President Xi made a speech this morning in which he committed China to all of those things and set out his vision for the next stage of Belt and Road and we will be looking very carefully at how that is operationalized.

2. Plutarch:

   Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

3. Chief Executive Chuck Magro:

   We're watching the situation carefully, from a consolidation perspective, this is healthy and normal, as part of the industry ... There could be some very good opportunities.

4. Jerry Brown:

   We are at a crossroads, with big and important new programs now launched and the budget carefully balanced, the challenge is to build for the future, not steal from it, to live within our means and to keep California ever golden and creative, as our forebears have shown and our descendents would expect.

5. Mitch McConnell:

   I believe it's essential that the United States maintain and strengthen the post-World War II alliances that have been carefully built by leaders in both parties, we must also maintain a clear-eyed understanding of our friends and foes, and recognize that nations like Russia are among the latter.

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