neglect
verb (used with object)
to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight.
neglecter
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a word derived from
neglect.
Example Sentences
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Then the scholar we are speaking of, a neglecter rather than an inspecter of books, will stuff his volume with violets, and primroses, with roses and quatrefoil.
From The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury by Ernest Chester Thomas
The rejecter or the neglecter binds his sin upon himself by his rejection or neglect.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI by Alexander Maclaren
It burned me like an acid to bear the name of this neglecter of his duties: this skulker behind a bush while other men did his work.
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
That no dreamer, no neglecter, Of the present's work unsped, I may wake up and be doing, Life's heroic ends pursuing, Though my past is dead as Hector, And though Hector is twice dead.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
Handel resembles Lully somewhat in his reputation for being a lover of the table and a neglecter of womankind.
From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 by Rupert Hughes
