neglectful
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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
It doesn’t matter whether DeJoy’s management is incompetent, neglectful, sinister or merely not up to the task.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2024
"Women are raised in a different way," DeGeneres says, before sharing a personal moment about growing up in a neglectful home, and having OCD and ADD.
From Salon • Sep. 24, 2024
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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