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

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

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 Gissing, George

M. de Maurepas was still powerful, still up and doing; he loved power, in spite of his real levity and his apparent neglectfulness.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Black, Robert