Meanings of neglected duties in English

The neglected duties of a king piled up in shame before my throne.

These earnest words reopened the many wounds that many neglected duties had made.

Something troubles me; I feel that I have neglected duties.

Attend the meetings, propose new work, urge on neglected duties.

He rose from his feet, intending this time to tackle his neglected duties in earnest.

The mistress of the big ranch was in her harness, having at once assumed her neglected duties.

Waste no thought on neglected duties.

While writing my 'Treatise on Education', I felt I had neglected duties with which it was not possible to dispense.

Hal is outside, and his beseeching whines have swelled to awful howls that remind me of neglected duties in the tent.

His ears were assailed by the loud tones and strong brogue of "Pat," returning thus late to his neglected duties.

All these emotional pyrotechnics had ended in petty jealousies, in neglected duties, and in cowardly fear of the little grocer on the corner.

At the close of every month and year he submitted himself to retrospection concerning fulfilled or neglected duties, judging himself by a severe standard.

She came one day, a fortnight after I had returned from Cary's flat to my neglected duties, heralded by a short note from Dawson.

Prosecutors had investigated whether the carmaker's top executives neglected duties and gained an economic advantage by installing cheating software that understated emissions in laboratory tests.

Then I began to remember all my neglected duties, and I determined to come home and atone for the past as soon as I could.

Neglected duties haunted her, like ghosts around the guilty conscience.