be negligent

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That would be negligent on the owner’s part.

From Slate • Sep. 15, 2023

“While empathetic of the community that it’s a hardship and a burden, I most certainly would be negligent if we ignored the risk this storm presents.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2023

On Tuesday the inquiry heard Scottish ministers were against providing payouts because the NHS had not been found to be negligent or at fault.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2022

"It would be negligent not to take the inflationary development into account," he said.

From Reuters • Jun. 16, 2022

And if any Master or Father of a Family be negligent herein, the Overseer for that Circuit shall 246 admonish him between them two.

From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Berens, Lewis Henry