All 6 Uses of
negligent
in
Emma
- Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.†
Chpt 1.13-14 *
- There was always sufficient reason for such an attention; Mrs. and Miss Bates loved to be called on, and she knew she was considered by the very few who presumed ever to see imperfection in her, as rather negligent in that respect, and as not contributing what she ought to the stock of their scanty comforts.†
Chpt 2.1-2
- They were sneering and negligent.†
Chpt 2.15-16
- So seldom that any negligence or blunder appears!†
Chpt 2.15-16
- She had not deserved it; she had often been negligent or perverse, slighting his advice, or even wilfully opposing him, insensible of half his merits, and quarrelling with him because he would not acknowledge her false and insolent estimate of her own—but still, from family attachment and habit, and thorough excellence of mind, he had loved her, and watched over her from a girl, with an endeavour to improve her, and an anxiety for her doing right, which no other creature had at all…†
Chpt 3.11-12
- —He meets with a young woman at a watering-place, gains her affection, cannot even weary her by negligent treatment—and had he and all his family sought round the world for a perfect wife for him, they could not have found her superior.†
Chpt 3.13-14
Definition:
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(negligent) insufficient care or attention (not being careful enough or not trying hard enough to fulfill a responsibility)