What is a "wreckless careerism"? [closed]

I have come across the following sentence:

The quickness of her ascent, and the fact that she revamped each orchestra’s administration before suddenly moving on, has led some in music business circles to charge her with wreckless careerism.
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After having considered that The New York Times, as far as I know, does not use slang words in its written texts, I wonder what wreckless careerism means. My problem is that wreckless gets no support from any dictionary I have consulted, but this Ngram shows that this word exists, so it seems difficult to rule out the case as a mere typo.

Solution 1:

Perhaps, but those numbers on the y axis are sooo small...

I, like you I'm guessing, believe they are using "wreckless" to mean the same as "reckless". So let's assume that is the case, and compare their use.

If you compare the y axis numbers here, you'll see the significance is roughly 1,000 times greater here than in your graph.

The NYT is rather famous (notorious) for having linguistic dicta mandating their staff hang onto obsolete words, usages, and rules long past the time that the rest of the continent has left them by. If I had to take a guess, I'd say "wreckless" is one of those.

Or it could just be a spellcheck/typo that got left in because technically that is an alternate spelling for "reckless".

If you write them, you may get an answer as to which it is.

Solution 2:

You need to use a better dictionary, as the OED entry for wreckless plainly reads:

wreckless, obs. erron. f. reckless a.