neglect
Example Sentences
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The mall had insufficient exterior lighting, the city said, and graffiti resulting from deferred or neglected maintenance.
From Los Angeles Times
Opera a decade ago, the lavish production, co-produced with English National Opera, helped recover a neglected opera.
From Los Angeles Times
These include neglecting company culture and falling in love with cool solutions to problems that might or might not exist.
Whose “broke and broken” father neglected his family while hobnobbing with wealthy San Francisco families, including the heirs of the Getty oil fortune.
From Los Angeles Times
This year's televised Spring Festival Gala, a state broadcaster-run New Year ritual, featured a sketch that referenced AQ, and one starring humanoid robots caring for a neglected grandmother.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
