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
Accidie: neglectfulness or indifference; from the Greek, akedeia.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
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 Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
And everybody reproached themselves with the same neglectfulness.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Maupassant, Guy de
