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Lack of due care
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neglect
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of neglecting. 2 The state of being neglected. 3 habitual lack of care. vb. 1 (label en transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something. 2 (label en transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neglect \Neg*lect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Neglected ; p. pr. & vb. n. Neglecting .] [L. neglectus, p. p. of neglegere (negligere) to disregard, neglect, the literal sense prob. being, not to pick up; nec not, nor (fr. ne not + -que, a particle akin to Goth. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Neglect is a passive form of abuse in which a perpetrator is responsible to provide care for a victim who is unable to care for himself or herself, but fails to provide adequate care. Neglect may include the failure to provide sufficient supervision, nourishment, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from Latin neglectus , past participle of neglegere "to make light of, disregard, be indifferent to, not heed, not trouble oneself about," literally "not to pick up," variant of neclegere , from Old Latin nec "not" (see deny ) + legere "pick up, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" [syn: pretermit , omit , drop , miss , leave out , overlook , overleap ] [ant: attend to ] fail to do something; leave something undone; ...
Usage examples of neglect.
Piles are not only in and of themselves very painful and annoying, but often greatly aggravate and even cause other grave and painful affections, and should, therefore, not be neglected.
And with the painting finished, Brigit had spent the day at Akasha, tending to the plants that had been a bit neglected these last few days.
If the cosmic menace of the anomaly had been ignored or underestimated, if our needs had been neglected, the errors had not been ours.
The trees looked as if they were dying and the flowers in the neglected beds rattled in the fumes and slipstreams of the traffic.
This hotel-de-ville, or town-hall, is the former Bailliage, the mansion of Groslot, the most illustrious house in Orleans, and the most neglected.
The single silver scabbard it bore was tarnished and begrimed from long neglect, but there was no sign of the sword it once held.
Defoe was welcomed aboard by the Port Master, a local worthy who doubled as Mayor of Shacktown, charged with neglecting sanitation and handing out beer and bhang on election day.
Barbie du Bocage, and points out that he appears to have neglected to consult de Barros, the most distinguished of all early Portuguese historians.
Snowdons, but to redeem a promise recently made to Bessie Byass, who declared herself vastly indignant at the neglect with which he treated her.
There was quite a bit of caffe consumed, but the ouiskie, brandy, wine, and beer were not neglected, either.
I should not have neglected to add that the damage to the ozone layer through the use of chlorofluorocarbons and similar substances in the twentieth century has brought about a serious intensification of incoming solar radiation, adding to the problem of global warming.
Me thinks there is some hanky-panky between the neglected Lady Coombs and him.
Lifting up my soul to God I could not help thinking that this misfortune was a Divine punishment for neglecting to escape when all was ready.
Perhaps he saunters into a country church-yard, and there finds amongst the rank grass and moss-grown and neglected memorials of the silent multitude, one trim and well-tended monument, uninvaded by cryptogamia, free from all stain of the weather, and the surrounding grassy sward neatly mown and fenced in, it may be, with budding willow branches or a circle of clipped box.
They looked instead to that neglected child of cryptography, the cipher.