Sample sentences for NEGLIGENT

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Definition

insufficient care or attention (not being careful enough or not trying hard enough to fulfill a responsibility)

negligence = insufficient care or attention

The jury found her criminally negligent in the fulfillment of her responsibilities.
Social Services said the parents were negligent and took custody of the children.
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.
Austen, Jane -- Sense and Sensibility
Mistreatment of children, negligent homicide.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

negligent = from insufficient care or attention

I give to negligence. Let come what comes,
William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

negligence = insufficient care or attention

I might have known better than to trust him with it! There's such a high price for negligence in this world!
Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie

negligence = being careless or recklessly inattentive

what my offence to him is; it is something of my negligence, nothing of my purpose.
William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night

negligence = insufficient care or attention

The master informed me how, by the negligence of the steersman, the steerage was set on fire:
Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe

negligence = insufficient care or attention

she let it drop by negligence,
William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice

negligence = insufficient care or attention

I cannot see that there has been any negligence on your part.
Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express

negligence = insufficient care or attention

Put on what weary negligence you please,
You and your fellow servants. I'll have it come to question.
William Shakespeare -- King Lear

negligence = insufficient care or attention

My gracious lord, I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful;
In every one of these no man is free,
William Shakespeare -- The Winter's Tale

negligent = guilty of insufficient care or attention

negligence = insufficient care or attention

negligent = from insufficient care or attention

You will be eager, I know, to hear something further of Frederica, and perhaps may think me negligent for not writing before.
Austen, Jane -- Lady Susan
...it looks to me as if you likewise were rather negligent of your duties
Dumas, Alexandre -- Ten Years Later
O, negligent and heedless discipline!
Shakespeare, William -- King Henry VI, Part 1
He opened it negligently, regarded it without emotion, and, in complete silence, handed it to me.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
At the moment, the maximum OSHA fine for a death caused by willful employer negligence is $70,000.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation

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