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Definition
insufficient care or attention (not being careful enough or not trying hard enough to fulfill a responsibility)
- 'tis perhaps only negligence.
- In 1737, Colonel Spotswood, late governor of Virginia, and then postmaster-general, being dissatisfied with the conduct of his deputy at Philadelphia, respecting some negligence in rendering, and inexactitude of his accounts, took from him the commission and offered it to me.
There are no more uses of "negligent" in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
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