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neglectful

/ni-glekt-fuhl/US // nɪˈglɛkt fəl //UK // (nɪˈɡlɛktfʊl) //

疏忽大意,忽略不计,疏于管理,忽视

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by neglect; disregardful; careless; negligent: neglectful of one's health.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • For 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.

  • 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.

  • The mostly-absent/borderline neglectful parents are a famous film director and a former supermodel.

  • Too 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.

  • Are you going to throw off the mask outright, and become a bad husband as well as a neglectful one?

  • He became more and more neglectful, failing time after time to heed the alarm.

  • But he fell into a sort of settled melancholy, which nothing could shake off, and even grew neglectful of the bottle.

  • Although he participated freely in the fun of the old road, he was not unmindful or neglectful of his business.