neglectfulness

Example Sentences

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But occasionally, the air is colored and salted by human complications, namely his neglectfulness as a husband and dad.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2021

Does her submissiveness, or non-assertiveness, or craving for paternal or male affection even at the cost of her own dreams and desires, arise from the distance or the neglectfulness of her father?

From The New Yorker • Mar. 28, 2015

If she gave this she would not have so many tales of woe to relate about the laziness, neglectfulness, and stupidity of her cook and housemaids.

From Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework Business principles applied to housework by Barker, C. Hélène

More often the daughter of the business man is both the victim and the vampire of his own shortsighted neglectfulness.

From The Gorgeous Girl by Bartley, Nalbro

She seemed to be blaming herself for neglectfulness, and thus the enterprise of going out had the look of an act of duty.

From The Price of Love by Bennett, Arnold