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.
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  • 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.
  • And now the whip was lost through my neglectfulness. Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
  • Meanwhile, in "Young Adult," an early indicator of the protagonist's free-range narcissism is the aging blond babe's casually neglectful treatment of her pet Pomeranian. Hollywood Is Going to the Dogs
  • Then she called the handmaid Marjanah hight and said to her, As thou lovest me, do my errand this day and be not neglectful therein! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • neglectful of his duties
  • He was so busy with his duties he became neglectful of his lovely and lonely wife.
  • She was neglectful of her clothing.
  • In our enchantment we are too often neglectful of that which made purchasing and consumption possible, namely, credit.
  • Shabby squeak-toys and the headless action figures of a thousand neglectful tots rose from the unkempt lawns.
  • We can only say that if this interpretation of exterritoriality is correct the other nations enjoying exteriorality in China have been very neglectful in the assertion of their just rights. The Fight for the Republic in China
  • They neglectfully forget that the ALP was formed by trade unions to help realise the basic and collective aspirations of the working class and fail to see the sizeable insult to these people inherent in this ‘pop’ terminology.
  • Meanwhile my son ran around the parking lot, just like those unsupervised kids that you look at as they run around in the parking lot, and you wonder, "what kind of neglectful parent just lets their kids run around in the parking lot like that? Holidailies 2009
  • It is expected that the bishop examine the priest-offender closely to determine whether he has been flagrantly neglectful of his life of prayer and living an unseemly life in areas other than that of the molestation charge.
  • Otway's life; he was uneasy under the sense that he had begun to slip towards neglectfulness, towards careless independence. The Crown of Life
  • Neglectful: low level of demandingness with low low level of responsiveness Parenting Styles and Obesity Risk in Adolescents | Dr. Sharma's Obesity Notes
  • When the self-structure is weak and vulnerable as a result of unattuned, neglectful, or traumatic caretaking, both the self-concept and self-esteem regulation become impaired. Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice
  • Neglectful silence is, of course, the most perfect means of maintaining the powerful integrity of the institutional boundaries against any criticisms.
  • Most vandals and yobs are created by irresponsible and neglectful parents.
  • That there might have been reasons for his loathsomeness that invite sympathy doesn't change the fact that he was an obnoxious drunk, an emotional bully and sadist, a sexual predator, a rotten husband and an alternately cruel and neglectful father, and it wasn't as though, like Hemingway, he punctuated his awfulness with acts of heroism and generosity. O Youth and Beauty!
  • But the boy Mohammed being by me objurgated-for I remarked in him a jaunty demeanour combined with neglectfulness of ceremonies-saluted it sulkily, muttering the while hints about the holiness of his birthplace exempting him from the trouble of stooping. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • She and her fellow "playground mums" feel marginalized by their husbands and disrespected by working mothers, but she cannot convey her disappointments in a way that compares with the bone-deep guilt of the "neglectful" working mother. Playground mum vs. Agent Provocateur
  • The all-pervasive corruption in the police force and the bureaucracy has made the commoners neglectful of the rule of law.
  • His idea of moral education, while not entirely neglectful of habit, feeling, and physical well-being, is almost a paradigm of a rationalistic approach, with an emphasis on maxims, rules, and above all cultivation of the mind.
  • Hedonistic accommodation sunshine coast that as unreconciled questioner strongbox sulkily and neglectfully unmanful, our overhead with the grossulariaceae is callipygous. Rational Review
  • Dryden had in truth done little but translate the play from the French, and the language felt patchy at best his new post of Poet Laureate—he took over when Will Davenant died—has made him neglectful of his playhouse duties. Exit the Actress
  • He's not neglectful, which is more than I can say for some docs. I have Lyrica, and why men shouldn't try and FORCE me into silence.
  • From the resulting free-kick, Dunning's cross to the back post somehow eluded a neglectfully unmarked McGurk.
  • Ms. Majors agrees with Boise police, and with Ferdinand himself, that he was "neglectful," but correctly said "that's not what we were there to decide. TrishAndHalli.com
  • [Cigarette-smoking the probable cause] She hasn't said she couldn't cure me, but that it will take a year's solid and continuous treatment, without any neglectfulness whatsoever. Fifteen Years with the Outcast
  • She calls us neglectful if we leave our daughter crying for just five minutes while we get her breakfast ready. The Sun
  • It was also callous, slapdash and neglectful of the interests of less secure and well paid workers.
  • Whittling countless hours away at the telephone, he spews forth acrimonious threats at the building's neglectful superintendent.
  • He looked through the skies like a maid searching through a sink full of grubby washing for her mistress' car keys which had neglectfully been misplaced; ‘do you believe in all that; UFO's, aliens and the like, Al?’
  • They were an organisation of high, almost paranoid secrecy - so secret even half of their own operatives had no idea what was going on behind closed doors, or even those left neglectfully ajar.
  • Stein neglectfully forgot to mention, however, that the looters include the Clintons, who, though pikers next to Blankfein or Schwarzman, have done pretty well compared to you and me. There Is Little Charity In Wealthy Charitable Hospitals.
  • Then again, I've been pretty neglectful of a few things in the last weeks
  • Through the rest of the poem she offers examples of marriages in which a promising husband proves neglectful or vicious.
  • Abandoned by their neglectful mother, four children are left to fend for themselves in this quiet, unsensational but minutely observed drama by Japan's Hirokazu Kore-eda.
  • Churches neglectfully leave their children to be babysat at Sunday school, instead of allowing them to learn about God alongside the adults, then taking them into the bathroom and beating them for acting up during the prayer. I'm Perfect, You're Doomed
  • I suspect that the neglectful ruination of Havana has served a profoundly ideological purpose.
  • When were delay and neglectfulness cut short, by such hidden perils waiting for the spring? The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
  • This cat was not in terribly good shape; he was thin and half-bald from a bad flea problem that his neglectful owners never saw fit to address, but even so, he's one of the sweetest boys in the world. National Treasure
  • Not in the neglectful sense: she was, for most of my childhood, a stay-at-home mom who baked cookies and led Girl Guide troops and did crafts and told hour upon hour of bedtime stories and lunchtime stories, and camptime stories, and going-for-a-walk stories, and riding-in-the-car stories... All About My Mother
  • What American audiences want most, she learns, is clockwork morality plays about neglectful mothers and errant wives.
  • But the high comes at a crippling price, altering a user's brain chemistry so that without the drug they can become paranoid, violent and neglectful of their families and their own health.
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  • But the boy Mohammed being by me objurgated-for I remarked in him a jaunty demeanour combined with neglectfulness of ceremonies-saluted it sulkily, muttering the while hints about the holiness of his birthplace exempting him from the trouble of stooping. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • Human sexuality is generally an understudied area of scientific investigation, and researchers have been particularly neglectful of the study of sexuality in the aging population.
  • I've been rather neglectful of this blog over the last couple of weeks.
  • Thus full of contradictions, unbending yet haughty, gentle yet fierce, tender and again neglectful, he by some strange art found easy entrance to the admiration and affection of women; now caressing and now tyrannizing over them according to his mood, but in every change a despot. I.4
  • We have grown neglectful of the benefits of sport and I think we are a Third World nation when it comes down to that area.
  • I've been rather neglectful of my day-to-day girlfriends, though.
  • Hedonistic accommodation sunshine coast that as unreconciled questioner strongbox sulkily and neglectfully unmanful, our overhead with the grossulariaceae is callipygous. Rational Review
  • Three barber licenses, issued by the State of California, hung neglectfully either on the mirror or on the wall to its right and left, making it legal for all three barbers to cut some mean hair-styles this crowd craved. A Love So Deep
  • It matters little if parents are heavily or neglectfully involved in their kids' lives. Walk in My Shoes: Teen talks about deadly brawl
  • It was also callous, slapdash and neglectful of the interests of less secure and well paid workers.
  • * It never occured to me, that she did not have any time to organize them, I just assumed it was some kind of neglectful lazy oversight on her part, and felt genetically ashamed that a) she could not seem to keep her coupons organized and b) that we were the kind of family that needed to use coupons. Wendchymes Diary Entry
  • For anyone with eyes to see and a television to be parked in front of by benignly neglectful eighties parents Floella is of course best known for her exuberantly dungareed presenting work on Playschool and Playaway. Film | guardian.co.uk
  • From the first settlements up until the Civil War, ordinary Americans were not heavily armed and were generally neglectful of the guns they did own.
  • With a General Election getting ever closer, it would be neglectful of me not to examine what Yorkshire's farming industry wants from the next Government.
  • Into the 1960 presidential election, Kissinger was among the adamant critics proclaiming that Eisenhower had neglectfully allowed a “missile gap” to develop with Moscow. Magic and Mayhem
  • The questions at issue in the administrative hearing are whether an adult teacher in the course of his classroom behavior (a) willfully or neglectfully injured a child, (b) was insubordinate toward the administration, (c) violated the guidelnes for his behavior in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and/or (d) violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment in his display of religious items and posters, including multiple instances of the Ten Commandments, in his classroom. Freshwater: Playing fast and loose with the truth - The Panda's Thumb
  • Pious people, along with neglectful officials and prurient newspapers, need not worry about the thin dividing line between the demon and the normal citizen.
  • I'm sure my boss thinks I've been neglectful of my duties recently.
  • There's a lot of neglectfulness and inattentiveness required to keep the plot moving in this thing. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1989)
  • Yet we can't complain about biomedicine being mechanistic and neglectful of the psychological and social realms, and then go and accuse it of colonising them when it finally expresses an interest.
  • He said that over the last 130 years we had been somewhat neglectful of our environment, especially in the recycling of domestic waste and we could not continue with the situation of solely using landfill for this.
  • A neglectful, stressed or inconsistent parent gave the kind of care which tended to lead to anxious, insecure or avoidant children.
  • He was so busy with his duties he became neglectful of his lovely and lonely wife.
  • Rathbone therefore found herself cast in the role of the profligate American, heedless of the future and neglectful of the past.
  • Assume the past resembles the simple patterns and clear verities of myth and the stories we write and call history will be woefully incomplete, hopelessly simplistic, and shamefully neglectful of others who were there.
  • Here the neglectfulness and dreariness of the outer aspect of the grave are completely done away with, and the dead lie peacefully under ground carpeted with flowers, and shaded by trees. The Englishwoman in America
  • The proposal has drawn fire from opposition parties and private foundations, who condemned it as neglectful of the welfare of the people.
  • Meanwhile my own work in the same area molders in neglectful shade, and I can scarcely afford even the rent on this two room shack in the shadow of the Matterhorn. The light that draws the flower
  • I have been very neglectful of my teeth for the last 5 years, earning me an admonishment from the detal hygienist for not getting my teeth checked after I had Lola, because pregnancy does terrible things to your teeth and gums, apparently. April 2006
  • The parents were permissive with or neglectful of their children, and the adolescents had developed a certain degree of independence.
  • The other side of the pressure and stress is caused by the very large number of people who assume that only a SAHM can be a good mother, and a career oriented woman must be some kind of neglectful mother who is having her kids raised by strangers. Should She or Shouldn’t She?
  • Yet he thought, as he raised his eyes for one instant to heaven in silent supplication, that there were few devils who would not go out by prayer, and he made a strong resolve that he would use every endeavour to make up for his past neglectfulness, and to save this poor unhappy child. St. Winifred's, or The World of School
  • The brothers ' biological parents had been physically abusive and neglectful.
  • The inferior clergy as a body were far nearer in character to Trulliber than to Dr. Primrose; coarse, sordid, neglectful of their duties, shamelessly addicted to sinecurism and pluralities, fanatics in their Toryism and in attachment to their corporate privileges, cold, rationalistic, and almost heathen in their preachings, if they preached at all. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
  • Second, how does a poll that may actually reflect (given a reasonable MoE; Rasmussen neglectfully didn't report it) the same exact sentiments as six months ago make front page news. Poll: Coleman's Lead Slipping
  • The terror turns up in all kinds of inconvenient places - a "hootenanny," involving folk singing and poor judgment; the backyard of a neglectful mother who is hanging laundry; and an over-packed reception hall where serious partiers in ridiculous outfits are dancing wildly in broad daylight. Colorado Springs Independent
  • It is well documented that the Dutch colonists were particularly neglectful of the indigenous population of the Dutch East Indies for centuries.
  • And not just underspending, but underspending by the gobsmackingly neglectful sum of 374 million. Times, Sunday Times
  • Years ago, a local bookstore used to neglectfully stack volumes at the top of its entrance ramp, Mr. Wang says. China Winds Down Paralympics
  • Most of the children I've had in my home come from young, low-income, single mothers who did the best they could but were deemed "neglectful" for being unable to provide for their children. Mail Call

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