Neglects
[ni'ɡlekts]
Examples
- The person who neglects to balance his account twice in the year, forfeits twenty-five guilders. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- George Osborne neglects her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He only neglects his work and runs up bills. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We have a bad case of that at Brockton; he neglects business to potter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The boy neglects his music now, and I'm glad of it, for he was getting too fond of it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- If he neglects, I will have the unbelieving villain's head. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Probably my son's happiness does not lie on this side of the grave, for he is a foolish man who neglects the advice of his parent. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Typist: Millie