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Meanings of neglectful in English
Synonyms
Examples for "derelict"
Examples for "derelict"
1
Turning back, Rardove sailed a brief look over the young, derelict soldiers.
2
The building seemed even more derelict than it had twenty minutes ago.
3
Property porn was a great escape: derelict castles, run-down farms, lighthouse conversions.
4
Some promoters didn't share our concern, and staged events in derelict warehouses.
5
The city, the island, now carried the haunted feel of a derelict.
1
Less is known about substance use and psychiatric comorbidity among delinquent adolescents.
2
Her pale face revealed the consternation and the apprehension of the delinquent.
3
They were the wife, the mother, and the children of the delinquent.
4
Without disturbing the delinquent, the captain replaced the lantern and passed forward.
5
Giddy delinquent reindeers with red hooters ignoring the rules of the road.
1
The boys had never been so unruly; the girls never so inattentive.
2
Neatness is indispensable; a slovenly and inattentive servant betrays a slovenly household.
3
Sitting by the table, I noticed that he seemed sleepy and inattentive.
4
But when prayer is inattentive the mind does not ascend towards God.
5
They also tend to be hyperactive, inattentive, physically unco-ordinated and socially isolated.
1
They are not like soldiers at all; they are remiss in everything.
2
Another point in which many basemen are remiss is in backing up.
3
I plainly saw I was too remiss; and that was my torment.
4
And Slow and Bideawhile might have been very remiss in their duty.
5
Either thou sayest wrong or I have been remiss in my devotions.
Usage of neglectful in English
1
Judgment that scenarios were neglectful correlated closely with the decision to report.
2
She forgot the unworthy father, as she thought of the neglectful mother.
3
It is not true that the Courts were corrupt, neglectful or remiss.
4
Each of them goes on its own way, neglectful of the whole.
5
I never took advantage of your case, to be cruel or neglectful.
6
The father-in-law who sees his savings frittered away by his neglectful daughter-in-law.
7
Often he wished that Ellen would become neglectful, like so many others.
8
He had never been unkind, but merely neglectful, unsmiling, coldly deterrent, unapproachable.
9
I don't mean by this, that Mrs. Jones is a neglectful woman.
10
But I am afraid, sir, that we have been worse than neglectful--stupid
11
Mother's Day - the annual guilt-trip for neglectful spouses and offhand offspring.
12
Touching the latter defect, the waiter is not impolite; he is not neglectful.
13
It is also shockingly neglectful, especially so close to urban areas.
14
He has met the king, who accepts him in his own neglectful way.
15
But neglectful or narcissistic parents are everywhere, especially, as the title suggests, fathers.
16
God knows I loved you; yes, even when I seemed cold and neglectful.
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Neglectful through the time
Neglectful across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common