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
Here the neglectfulness and dreariness of the outer aspect of the grave are completely done away with, and the dead lie peacefully under ground carpeted with flowers, and shaded by trees.
From The Englishwoman in America by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
And now the whip was lost through my neglectfulness.
From Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
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)
