Thesaurus / neglectful
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Yet the continued failure of San Diego’s elected city leaders to deliver on equity of opportunity as related to housing has been neglectful at best, shameful at worst.
IT’S TIME TO PUT MONEY BEHIND ALL THE TALK ABOUT EQUITYRICARDO FLORESAPRIL 5, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGOFor example, habitual bingers tend to feel a loss of control and neglectful of their day-to-day responsibilities while they’re watching, and anxious and unable to focus in between viewings.
IS WATCHING TV ACTUALLY A GOOD WAY TO RELAX?CORINNE IOZZIOJANUARY 27, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEHis lawyer Matías Morla urged an investigation on Thursday, alleging the health workers caring for the soccer star were neglectful.
POLICE SEARCH HOME AND OFFICE OF MARADONA’S DOCTOR IN DEATH INVESTIGATIONRUBY MELLEN, ANA HERRERONOVEMBER 29, 2020WASHINGTON POSTNeglectful of his personal safety, he plunged out into the traffic, dodging this way and that, and making after Monte Irvin's car.
DOPESAX ROHMERAre you going to throw off the mask outright, and become a bad husband as well as a neglectful one?
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODHe became more and more neglectful, failing time after time to heed the alarm.
THE VALUE OF A PRAYING MOTHERISABEL C. BYRUMBut he fell into a sort of settled melancholy, which nothing could shake off, and even grew neglectful of the bottle.
JACK HARKAWAY'S BOY TINKER AMONG THE TURKSBRACEBRIDGE HEMYNGAlthough he participated freely in the fun of the old road, he was not unmindful or neglectful of his business.
THE OLD PIKETHOMAS B. SEARIGHTAt the very next meeting, monsieur shall see whether the great government's French children are neglectful!
IN MADEIRA PLACEHEMAN WHITE CHAPLINMrs. Lovell was lying back with the neglectful grace of incontestable beauty; not a line to wrinkle her smooth soft features.
RHODA FLEMING, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHWORDS RELATED TO NEGLECTFUL
- absent
- absentminded
- apathetic
- blind
- bored
- careless
- distracted
- distrait
- distraught
- diverted
- dreamy
- faraway
- heedless
- inadvertent
- indifferent
- inobservant
- listless
- lost
- musing
- neglectful
- oblivious
- off-guard
- out to lunch
- preoccupied
- rapt
- regardless
- remiss
- removed
- scatterbrained
- thoughtless
- unconscious
- undiscerning
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unnoticing
- unobservant
- unobserving
- unperceiving
- unthinking
- unwatchful
- vague
- any old way
- bold
- brash
- careless
- caught napping
- devil-may-care
- fast-and-loose
- foot-in-mouth
- hasty
- heedless
- hotheaded
- ill-advised
- ill-judged
- impetuous
- improvident
- imprudent
- impulsive
- inconsiderate
- indiscreet
- injudicious
- madcap
- neglectful
- negligent
- off guard
- pay no mind
- playing with fire
- precipitate
- rash
- reckless
- regardless
- sticking one's neck out
- thoughtless
- unalert
- unguarded
- unmindful
- unthinking
- unvigilant
- unwatchful
- wary
- wide open
- any way
- asleep on job
- behindhand
- broad
- careless
- casual
- delinquent
- derelict
- devil-may-care
- disregardful
- easygoing
- flaccid
- forgetful
- general
- imprecise
- inaccurate
- indefinite
- indifferent
- inexact
- lenient
- neglectful
- negligent
- nonspecific
- oblivious
- overindulgent
- paying no mind
- regardless
- shapeless
- slipshod
- sloppy
- soft
- unmindful
- vague
- yielding
- apathetic
- asleep on the job
- careless
- comatose
- dallying
- dilatory
- drowsy
- dull
- flagging
- idle
- inattentive
- indifferent
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- languid
- languorous
- lethargic
- lifeless
- loafing
- neglectful
- out of it
- passive
- procrastinating
- remiss
- shiftless
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow
- slow-moving
- snoozy
- somnolent
- supine
- tardy
- tired
- torpid
- trifling
- unconcerned
- unenergetic
- unindustrious
- unpersevering
- unready
- weary
- apathetic
- asleep on the job
- careless
- comatose
- dallying
- dilatory
- drowsy
- dull
- flagging
- idle
- inattentive
- indifferent
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- languid
- languorous
- lethargic
- lifeless
- loafing
- neglectful
- out of it
- passive
- procrastinating
- remiss
- shiftless
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow
- slow-moving
- snoozy
- somnolent
- supine
- tardy
- tired
- torpid
- trifling
- unconcerned
- unenergetic
- unindustrious
- unpersevering
- unready
- weary
- airy
- aloof
- apathetic
- blasé
- calm
- careless
- casual
- cold
- collected
- composed
- cool
- detached
- disimpassioned
- disinterested
- dispassionate
- easy
- effortless
- happy
- impassive
- imperturbable
- incurious
- indifferent
- insouciant
- lackadaisical
- light
- listless
- loose
- lukewarm
- mellow
- neglectful
- negligent
- neutral
- offhand
- placid
- serene
- smooth
- trifling
- uncaring
- unconcerned
- unemotional
- unexcited
- unfeeling
- unflappable
- unimpressible
- unperturbed
- unruffled
- untroubled
- absent
- absentminded
- absorbed
- abstracted
- amnesic
- blind
- blundering
- careless
- deaf
- disregardful
- distracted
- dreamy
- forgetful
- forgetting
- gone
- heedless
- inattentive
- incognizant
- inconversant
- insensible
- neglectful
- negligent
- not all there
- out to lunch
- overlooking
- preoccupied
- regardless
- spacey
- strung out
- unacquainted
- unconcerned
- unconscious
- undiscerning
- unfamiliar
- uninformed
- uninstructed
- unknowing
- unmindful
- unnoticing
- unobservant
- unrecognizing
- unwitting
- zonked
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