neglectful
adjective
characterized by neglect; disregardful; careless; negligent (often followed byof ).
neglectfulness
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a word derived from
neglectful.
Example Sentences
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But occasionally, the air is colored and salted by human complications, namely his neglectfulness as a husband and dad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
Does her submissiveness, or non-assertiveness, or craving for paternal or male affection even at the cost of her own dreams and desires, arise from the distance or the neglectfulness of her father?
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 28, 2015
Accidie: neglectfulness or indifference; from the Greek, akedeia.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
And everybody reproached themselves with the same neglectfulness.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant
More often the daughter of the business man is both the victim and the vampire of his own shortsighted neglectfulness.
From The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley
