neglectfulness
Example Sentences
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But occasionally, the air is colored and salted by human complications, namely his neglectfulness as a husband and dad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
Does her submissiveness, or non-assertiveness, or craving for paternal or male affection even at the cost of her own dreams and desires, arise from the distance or the neglectfulness of her father?
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 28, 2015
Affectionate loyalty to his father had ever been a guiding principle in Piers Otway's life; he was uneasy under the sense that he had begun to slip towards neglectfulness, towards careless independence.
From The Crown of Life by George Gissing
He took the money grumblingly, as if it was the least that could be offered as atonement for the neglectfulness of last Thursday; but he went home very happy.
From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell
The truth is that, being an incorrigible Spaniard, I am naturally given to a kind of extemporization and to neglectfulness of a filed niceness in my works.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
