neglect
verb (used with object)
to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight.
neglectedly
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a word derived from
neglect.
Example Sentences
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A woman tourist spied a skinny old nag slumped neglectedly against a fence post near Charleston, wrote a beseeching letter to South Carolina's vigorous, Klan-cracking Governor Burnet Rhett Maybank.
From Time Magazine Archive
His face was pale and very sad, and his forehead shaded with a mass of black, heavy hair, pushed away from one temple, and falling neglectedly over the other.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
