remissin a sentence
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I'd be remiss in this overview if I didn't also mention...remiss = careless -- not doing a good job
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It was remiss of you not to pay your bills.remiss = careless
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"Well, Sally, I'm in fault, and I acknowledge it; I've been remiss; but I won't let to-morrow go by without stopping up them holes." (source)remiss = careless in not doing a duty well enough
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…nothing but having no horses of my own could have made me so remiss; (source)remiss = inadequate performance (of a duty)
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But as your tutor, I would be remiss were I to skew your impressions before you had the chance to formulate them yourself.† (source)
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Ser, you've been remiss in teaching our new brothers their duties.† (source)
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A former Salem minister, George Burroughs, had had to borrow money to pay for his wife's funeral, and, since the parish was remiss in his salary, he was soon bankrupt.† (source)
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He resolved that never through remissness would he make himself liable to such a visitation or do or omit aught that might merit even verbal reproof.† (source)remissness = carelessness -- especially with regard to a dutystandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Highly remiss, in my book.† (source)
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So three-hundred winters the waster of peoples Held upon earth that excellent hoard-hall, Till the forementioned earlman angered him bitterly: 60 The beat-plated beaker he bare to his chieftain And fullest remission for all his remissness Begged of his liegelord.† (source)
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From her tone Roscoe got the clear implication that he had been remiss in his duty.† (source)
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As soon as he had apologized for the remissness of his memory, he asked me if he should send Boots for Mr. Pumblechook?† (source)
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I regret to say this, Miss Kenton, but I believe you have been a little remiss in these respects.† (source)
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Is this owing to the generosity of him in whose possession it is found, or to the remissness of the officers of justice?† (source)
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I was never remiss in poisoning Alejandra's mind against the conceits of the sorts of suitors available to her and we have both long been willing to entertain the notion of rescue arriving in whatever garb it chose.† (source)
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Sometimes I thought that the fiend followed me and might expedite my remissness by murdering my companion.† (source)
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