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remissness
noun as in negligence
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They relate to the culpable remissness of these Knoxville leaders in failing to volunteer in the cause of the Confederacy.
His first plan had failed through the remissness of others; his second effort to move had been made abortive by the storm.
Even then his strange remissness would not have impressed itself upon him but for a startling discovery.
The remissness of our people in paying taxes is highly blameable, the unwillingness to pay them is still more so.
It also explains his remissness in leaving Grouchy to exercise full discretion as to his movements.
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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to remissness, such as: disregard, failure, forgetfulness, heedlessness, inattention, and inattentiveness.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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