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
If she gave this she would not have so many tales of woe to relate about the laziness, neglectfulness, and stupidity of her cook and housemaids.
From Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework Business principles applied to housework by C. Hélène Barker
Accidie: neglectfulness or indifference; from the Greek, akedeia.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
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
