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UK
/nɪɡlˈɛktfəl/
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[ US /nɪˈɡɫɛktfəɫ/ ]
[ US /nɪˈɡɫɛktfəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not showing due care or attention
an inattentive babysitter
neglectful parents
an inattentive babysitter
inattentive students
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failing in what duty requires
derelict (or delinquent) in his duty
remiss of you not to pay your bills
neglectful of his duties
How To Use neglectful In A Sentence
- O Arjuna, nescience, inertness, neglectfulness and also illusion; when these arise the mode of ignorance predominates.
- And everybody reproached themselves with the same neglectfulness. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories
- His survey of current attempts at restitution pays little attention to the role of religion therein, an omission that some other scholars would consider neglectful of important facts.
- Black and mulatto women, on the other hand, were masculinized in paintings which portrayed black women dominating Spanish and mestizo men and treating their children in neglectful and decidedly unmotherly ways.
- Neglectful silence is, of course, the most perfect means of maintaining the powerful integrity of the institutional boundaries against any criticisms.
- She calls us neglectful if we leave our daughter crying for just five minutes while we get her breakfast ready. The Sun
- She calls us neglectful if we leave our daughter crying for just five minutes while we get her breakfast ready. The Sun
- Well, if I been kind of neglectful, it ain't that I'm not interested in you-all a heap! Black Jack
- The Prime Minister is clearly alive to the danger of being seen as neglectful of his home front because he is too preoccupied with foreign affairs.
- Unhappily, viewed from Moscow, this has issued in a relationship more neglectful of Russian national interests.