neglectfulness
IPA: nɪgɫˈɛktfʌɫnʌs
noun
- The characteristic of being neglectful.
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Examples of "neglectfulness" in Sentences
- And now the whip was lost through my neglectfulness.
- And everybody reproached themselves with the same neglectfulness.
- When were delay and neglectfulness cut short, by such hidden perils waiting for the spring?
- There's a lot of neglectfulness and inattentiveness required to keep the plot moving in this thing.
- Otway's life; he was uneasy under the sense that he had begun to slip towards neglectfulness, towards careless independence.
- [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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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