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
And everybody reproached themselves with the same neglectfulness.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Maupassant, Guy de
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 Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington)
M. de Maurepas was still powerful, still up and doing; he loved power, in spite of his real levity and his apparent neglectfulness.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Black, Robert
