Sample Sentences for
negligent
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  • I might have known better than to trust him with it! There's such a high price for negligence in this world!  (source)
    negligence = being careless or recklessly inattentive
  • The truth was, by then, the cancer in Baba's brain had made him forgetful, negligent.†  (source)
  • Some people say they were negligent parents; others that they were merely distant, or naive.†  (source)
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  • We have lost so many of the precious lives of our soldiers and this is due to your negligence.†  (source)
  • It was criminally negligent.†  (source)
  • "Oh, a shred, surely," Littlefinger replied negligently.†  (source)
  • Now and again I have expressed the opinion that every nation, and even every person, would do better, instead of rocking himself to sleep with political catchwords about war guilt, to ask himself how far his own faults and negligences and evil tendencies are guilty of the war and all the other wrongs of the world, and that therein lies the only possible means of avoiding the next war.†  (source)
  • DRACO: Then it's a negligence I too should face.†  (source)
  • Lawton countered that Seiler had defended Williams "in a negligent, incompetent and unethical manner."†  (source)
  • Slouching negligently she said, as though there had been no interruption, "What kind of place you think this is?"†  (source)
  • Bella had never been one to permit weekend negligence when it came to grooming and dress.†  (source)
  • I was an E-felony, criminally negligent homicide, reduced from a charge of manslaughter in the second degree, and we played game after game of half-court, going all-out and taking deep and healthy breaths and having a tussle or two.†  (source)
  • His right hand lay negligently upon the arm of his chair; with a jolt, Harry saw that he was wearing Marvolo's gold-and-black ring; he had already killed his father.†  (source)
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