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- behindhand
- delinquent
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- disregardful
- heedless
- inattentive
- indifferent
- lax
- lazy
- negligent
- regardless
- remiss
- slack
- thoughtless
- uncaring
- unmindful
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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 Equity | Ricardo Flores | April 5, 2021 | Voice 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.
His 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 investigation | Ruby Mellen, Ana Herrero | November 29, 2020 | Washington Post
Off stage, he was an unfaithful husband, a neglectful father, and a friend only so long as you did what he wanted.
In the book, Matilda overcame her neglectful parents by teaching herself how to read Dickens and perform complicated math.
‘Matilda’ Star Mara Wilson Reviews ‘Matilda the Musical’ | Ramin Setoodeh | April 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe mostly-absent/borderline neglectful parents are a famous film director and a former supermodel.
How to Curate Your Tween’s TV Time, From ‘Big Time Rush’ to ‘Dog with a Blog’ | Barbara Spindel | March 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTToo many of his writings have as their theme the great wrong done to him personally by a neglectful country.
neglectful of his personal safety, he plunged out into the traffic, dodging this way and that, and making after Monte Irvin's car.
Dope | Sax RohmerAre you going to throw off the mask outright, and become a bad husband as well as a neglectful one?
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodHe became more and more neglectful, failing time after time to heed the alarm.
The value of a praying mother | Isabel 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 Turks | Bracebridge HemyngAlthough he participated freely in the fun of the old road, he was not unmindful or neglectful of his business.
The Old Pike | Thomas B. Searight
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