Negligent
['neɡlɪdʒənt] or ['nɛɡlɪdʒənt]
Definition
(adj.) characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern; 'negligent parents'; 'negligent of detail'; 'negligent in his correspondence' .
Typist: Nora--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order.
Typed by Dido
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Careless (habitually), thoughtless, heedless, remiss, regardless, inattentive, neglectful.
Typist: Nicholas
Examples
- He was mentally the new thing in history, negligent of and rather ignorant of the older things out of which his new world had arisen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The person who had been called Misse Cassy now came forward, and, with a haughty, negligent air, delivered her basket. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- His family knew him to be, on all common occasions, a most negligent and dilatory correspondent; but at such a time they had hoped for exertion. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Certainly; and if he is lazy or negligent, I will write his excuses myself. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority. Jane Austen. Emma.
- He lifted his eyebrows with a negligent, indifferent expression. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He also insisted upon a future life, the fear of hell for the negligent and evil, and the reservation of paradise for the believer in the One God. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- How could I be so ridiculous and negligent? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In the composition of this statute, the legislature itself seems to have been as negligent as the copiers were in the transcription of the other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They were dressed to correspond, though in a most untidy and negligent way. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Negligent, indeed, she was not. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- True, says the negligent lounger; picking cotton isn't hard work. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Holmes strolled round the house with his hands in his pockets and a negligent air which was unusual with him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You will often find me awkward, but never negligent. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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