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neglectfulness

noun as in carelessness

noun as in negligence

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Example Sentences

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

In my mind, she oscillated between sheer neglectfulness and obsessiveness over my life.

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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?

He took the money grumblingly, as if it was the least that could be offered as atonement for the neglectfulness of last Thursday; but he went home very happy.

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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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