neglectful

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An important study from Australia found that in the last few decades we have really lowered the threshold to what is labeled harmful, abusive, traumatizing and neglectful behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

The management company acted in an inappropriate and/or neglectful manner.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 18, 2025

It will be up to courts to determine whether state officials were actually neglectful.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2025

A mental health trust that discharged a patient despite a "real and immediate risk to her life" was neglectful in its conduct, a coroner has said.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025

Mantell was a lanky assemblage of shortcomings–he was vain, self-absorbed, priggish, neglectful of his family–but never was there a more devoted amateur paleontologist.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson