All 3 Uses of
negligent
in
Sense and Sensibility
- 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.†
Chpt 17 *negligent = insufficient care or attention
- Design could never bring them in each other's way: negligence could never leave them exposed to a surprise; and chance had less in its favour in the crowd of London than even in the retirement of Barton, where it might force him before her while paying that visit at Allenham on his marriage, which Mrs. Dashwood, from foreseeing at first as a probable event, had brought herself to expect as a certain one.†
Chpt 32
- My illness, I well knew, had been entirely brought on by myself by such negligence of my own health, as I had felt even at the time to be wrong.†
Chpt 46
Definition:
insufficient care or attention (not being careful enough or not trying hard enough to fulfill a responsibility)