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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

Affectionate loyalty to his father had ever been a guiding principle in Piers Otway's life; he was uneasy under the sense that he had begun to slip towards neglectfulness, towards careless independence.

From The Crown of Life by George Gissing

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.

From The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Preaching was rare, partly from neglectfulness and partly because, in 1401, in order to prevent the spread of heresy, priests were forbidden to preach without a licence.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various


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