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neglectful

[ni-glekt-fuhl] / nɪˈglɛkt fəl /


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Mr. Sparks portrayed a man reaching out to his long-estranged brother in the wake of the death of their neglectful mother.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

The management company acted in an inappropriate and/or neglectful manner.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 18, 2025

The play revolves around two modern-day brothers, Booth and Lincoln, whose fate may be determined by the names their profoundly neglectful parents saddled them with as a joke — a joke with an archetypal punchline.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025

Their actions were not, however, considered "deliberately neglectful".

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2025

Mantell was a lanky assemblage of shortcomings–he was vain, self-absorbed, priggish, neglectful of his family–but never was there a more devoted amateur paleontologist.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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